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By: Run Windows Commands Easily With Commands In Demand « Kurdu.Tc – World Biggest Portal

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:10:35 +0000

[...] non responsive applications at the click of a button, it even lets you create a shortcut to do so, like we showed you some time back. You can restart Windows Explorer with a single click or fire the Task Manager to take things in [...]

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Fri, 21 Aug 2009 02:33:33 +0000

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 23:39:36 +0000

Always having trouble with Vista making unresponsive programs which Task Manager cant shut down for whatever reason. But this fuckin worked! MINT!

By: david

david — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:28:19 +0000

well then what you can do is add this shortcut in your taskbar :-b

By: em josefsberg

em josefsberg — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:09:49 +0000

i, too, could not find taskkill.exe but i did find tskill (no extension) under \system 32. altering the command, you get: %windir%\system32\tskill.exe /f /fi “status eq not responding”, which shortcut i was permitted by xp home to create. have no idea if it will work until i get another responsive app, tho.

By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 10:18:28 +0000

You can download the taskkill.exe aplication and put it in your windows directory and it should work fine

By: Derek

Derek — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:59:12 +0000

Another way to make it single-click would be to drag the shortcut to the QuickLaunch bar. That would also solve the problem of having to view the desktop before clicking on it.

By: BB

BB — Tue, 26 May 2009 17:00:41 +0000

Windows IS pretty dang stable unless you are still using 3.1. How is “less RAM to Viruses to poorly designed applications” ANY fault of Windows. I can’t remember the last time Windows crashed and it was not the fault of hardware, an application or some driver.

By: theboss0_0@hotmail.com

theboss0_0@hotmail.com — Mon, 25 May 2009 13:13:36 +0000

thank u
its a great tool for vista specially:P

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Friday Links #52 | Blue Onion Software * — Sun, 24 May 2009 11:28:05 +0000

[...] How To Kill Unresponsive Programs without The Task Manager – Not a program, but a tip for creating a shortcut to kill unresponsive programs in a single click. I added it to my desktop last week and have already used it several times. Simple, clever idea. [...]

By: Terenas

Terenas — Fri, 22 May 2009 17:30:23 +0000

Valid for XP Professional, not Home

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Tue, 19 May 2009 08:06:19 +0000

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By: youthworker

youthworker — Sat, 16 May 2009 11:52:05 +0000

I’ve browsed a few other forums and, yes, it does appear that you can download it or copy it from various websites and it will work on XP home etc. Google it and you’ll find various places to download it. I’m no expert, so i wasn’t sure where to put it, so I had to change the shortcut to include the full path eg c:\taskkill.exe /f /fi “status eq not responding”. There was probably a better way of doing this.

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 16 May 2009 02:42:16 +0000

So, is it possible to create the file taskkill.exe?

For example, can I copy it from XP Pro and paste it into a folder on my XP computer?

By: Transcontinental

Transcontinental — Fri, 15 May 2009 15:52:30 +0000

It would be nice if authors checked their literature before making people lose their time : XP Pro only, is it?
Mama mia…

By: Juscelino M. Acevedo

Juscelino M. Acevedo — Fri, 15 May 2009 15:45:48 +0000

I like how you guys always find great uses for very uncommon things that are very useful. What that means is that I know about and how to use Taskkill, but I never thought about creating a simple shortcut to use it. Great job…

By: youthworker

youthworker — Fri, 15 May 2009 12:17:10 +0000

Can you give some clues as to where we put the spaces? I cut and pasted it from the description and get the message others have received.

By: quickroute

quickroute — Fri, 15 May 2009 12:06:13 +0000

taskkill.exe is for XP Pro only – pity the author didn’t mention that

By: mymytri

mymytri — Fri, 15 May 2009 11:52:22 +0000

Interesting one.But task manager has one advantage.You can end non responsive tasks without minimizing the program window you are running just clicking on the taskbar.

By: tj

tj — Fri, 15 May 2009 11:11:36 +0000

that was great. i got the “unable to find” error message, too, but when I added spaces worked fine.

By: tipat

tipat — Fri, 15 May 2009 06:08:11 +0000

Dude thats come cool stuff, very useful thanks

By: wayne

wayne — Fri, 15 May 2009 04:39:36 +0000

this would be handy , if it worked for me.
win XP SP3, i get taskkill.exe file cannot be found error

By: Anurag

Anurag — Fri, 15 May 2009 04:04:29 +0000

Great Tweak,It is very helpful for users like me.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 15 May 2009 02:42:44 +0000

Thanks for the great tip.

However, When I click after “taskkill.exe…” it says, “unable to find file taskkill.exe”

Do I have to create a file as well as the shortcut?

Thanks