Whenever I end a process in the CTRL-ALT-DEL window, it's still displayed ..

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RowdyB

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Hi there,

as I said in the title, whenever I end a process in the CTRL-ALT-DEL window, it's still displayed. Only after hitting ESC and CTRL-ALT-DEL again the ended process (or multiple processes, if I killed more) is (are) no longer there.

Why this tedious and strange behaviour all of a sudden ? All I did or in fact, had done for me, was getting rid of my old XP and reinstalling XP - after 2.5 years my PC slowed down severely, got as stable as a drunk hobo etc, so it really was about time.

Under the previous XP however, processes immediately disappeared upon being killed. Just the way it should be.

QUESTION: Does anyone have a clue what's going on and possibly even an idea how I should fix this??
Any hints, tips or tricks are more than welcome!

Thanks in advance,
Rowdy Blokland.
 
Sometimes certain processes takes more than one time to kill using task manager. If this just started happening right after a fresh install then its possible an update has caused this or the install cd is corrupt or some other issue.

What types of processes are you trying to end process on? Did you do a fresh install or a repair install? Did you delete the existing partitions and then repartition?
 
Hi John,

Thank you very much for your attention.

What precisely happens, is that any application I kill (I always kill applications via the task manager, I also kill processes (in which applications are rooted) only once in a while by the way – but exactly the same strange behaviour holds for killing processes) also immediately disappears, is gone, is ended. Visual feedback, if any at all, since windows tend to overlap and pile up, only sometimes tells me so and at the bottom of the screen the corresponding app is also removed from the task bar.

It’s just that the task manager is not being refreshed. It portrays a lie, it gives me a bad overview of the status of my computer.

(In case you wonder why I do not simply glance at the bottom of the screen and take this new ‘feature’ for granted: I have low vision since a freak accident some years ago and am now forced to use (great) speechsynthesizers & screen magnifying software to continue my work as a journalist – really fantastic aids they are, but the task bar now is always out of sight. The task manager however is my fast and fluent way to deal with applications the way I used to.)

Okay, here are the answers to your questions: Literally all applications (or processes) are delt with in the same way (they are being ended, but the task manager will not tell that unless being sent away and re-invoked). We did the second, yet again fresh install. And finally, we formatted the partition involved and let the data partition as is ..

I’m very curious to hear what this new round may have in stock for me :),
Cheers,

Rowdy Blokland,
The Netherlands
 
Some type of processes are a part of other processes called PROCESS TREE and therefore cannot be killed by one termination.So try to use END PROCESS TREE instead END PROCESS on those processes you are terminating...

Let us know if it worked.



Cheers!
 
Hello Stars,

oh yes that works fine. Killing as such works fine, it's just that the task manager won't tell me so unless I make it disappear and re-appear ..

.. I think I shouldn't have brought up the term processes at all. I kill applications (which targets the entire tree). It's just that the task manager refreshes neither after killing an app nor after doing so with a single process.

Question remains: am I the only guy on the planet who has a freshly installed XP under which the task manager does noet IMMEDIATELY tell me what I did???

Cheers!
Rowdy
 
Oh my. After my previous post I just wondered whether this non-refreshing might be a feature anyway and guess what: under Display (or that’s what it spells in my language ..) the refreshrate apparently can be set to High, Standard, Low or something that means Interrupted (in my own language).

It’s setting was: Standard. I set it to High. Immediately the task manager started to neatly display the actual status of apps running!

Surprisingly, switching that parameter back to Standard _only_ introduced a refreshdelay of say just half a second. It did not make the task manager simply freeze again, as it consistently persisted to do all the time at that setting. Although that’s a weird thing too, I of course do not need to know why I accidentally oiled the task manager by doing what I just did ..

John and Stars: thanks again for your time!
Thus ending the thread,
enjoy,
Rowdy.
 
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