For some reason I have ZoneAlarm installed (I guess I'm a bit paranoid) but sometimes it crashes horribly. When it does so, it leaves the task vsmon.exe running and taking up some resources - more than it usually does (up to 10% CPU even).
So I tried to kill it with taskmanager, I tried to kill it with processexplorer, I tried to kill its individual threads with processexplorer, and finally, because all of these didn't work (access denied) I tried to kill it with taskkill. To my surprise, even THAT didn't work (I tried with and without the /f switch, with the /f switch it said "access denied", without it, it claimed to have killed the task - but it hadn't.).
What use is a taskkiller if it doesn't actually kill the task?
XP taskkill fails to kill a task
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One time I had a problem with not being able to stop a file from running, what I eventually did, was change the file name, and because the computer didn't recognize the file name, I didn't get the 'file currently being used' message.
If that doesn't work you could also make it not startup with your computer by typing "msconfig" into the run program. Then telling it not to start up with the computer and deleting it that way.
... because it is such a dominant file you're trying to delete (giving it priority over other programs), this might just work when the programs don't ...
If that doesn't work you could also make it not startup with your computer by typing "msconfig" into the run program. Then telling it not to start up with the computer and deleting it that way.
... because it is such a dominant file you're trying to delete (giving it priority over other programs), this might just work when the programs don't ...
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It's unfortunate Symantec bought out Sygate and discontinued the free version. Now there's no updates, meaning it's incompatible with Vista (my computer doesn't have Vista so that's no problem, but my brother's laptop does, which I often use for internet purposes).
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No updates -> incompitable with vista?
that is well weird, how does vista even know it's not being updated?
@Homestar: the file is not the problem, the process is..
The way I finally managed to kill it was by trying to uninstall ZoneAlarm (which errored because vsmon could not be stopped) and then running taskkill on it again - and this time it did kill it. No idea why it helped, but it did. The normal zonealarm process was already killed when it failed btw so that couldn't have been the culprit.
that is well weird, how does vista even know it's not being updated?
@Homestar: the file is not the problem, the process is..
The way I finally managed to kill it was by trying to uninstall ZoneAlarm (which errored because vsmon could not be stopped) and then running taskkill on it again - and this time it did kill it. No idea why it helped, but it did. The normal zonealarm process was already killed when it failed btw so that couldn't have been the culprit.
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