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I have a few unstable vsts that I like to use anyway, but if Live crashes for whatever reason it will hang around as a process that can't be killed for like 15 minutes, reopening Live just gets me more error messages about rewire not available and it also doesnt release my PowerCore cards resources until it finally dies after 10-15 minutes.

If there anyway you can get to murder this process? just killing it from windows task manager does nothing, or perhaps some way of decreasing how long it takes before timing out after it hangs?

Bump!

If someone has any idea of how to get rid of the Live process immidiately when it crashes please post a suggestion.

Murphys law will allways make sure that this happens right when you are in the zone and waiting for ages until the Live Process finally dies is realy annoying, no amount of trying to kill the process from task manager helps, I can select it and hit 'end process' but I don't even get an error when trying, it just goes ding and it's still there. (Shakes angry monkey fist at process grrr)

I have had this happen.

The other weird thing that happens is that when I close Live (File->quit), it hangs as a process, sometimes using none, sometimes chewing up 99% of my CPU. I wind up having to do a hard reset.


Anyone know what this is about? It frightens me.

pulsoc wrote:I have had this happen.

The other weird thing that happens is that when I close Live (File->quit), it hangs as a process, sometimes using none, sometimes chewing up 99% of my CPU. I wind up having to do a hard reset.


Anyone know what this is about? It frightens me.

I'm on Win XP and I can confirm that quitting Live is very hard it hangs 6 times out of 10 and I have to pick up Task Monitor to kill it manually. Not able to reproduce yet..

reboot is the only cure my friends

I'm just wondering what part of windows that controlls 'you can't kill this process' in linux I just do a "kill -9 processnumber" and no matter what it's dead on the spot, there's got to be some way to do the same in windows.

ILTK wrote:I'm just wondering what part of windows that controlls 'you can't kill this process' in linux I just do a "kill -9 processnumber" and no matter what it's dead on the spot, there's got to be some way to do the same in windows.

Yes there are some kill utilities on the net...I forgot where, go googling and came back.

Pasha wrote:

ILTK wrote:I'm just wondering what part of windows that controlls 'you can't kill this process' in linux I just do a "kill -9 processnumber" and no matter what it's dead on the spot, there's got to be some way to do the same in windows.

Yes there are some kill utilities on the net...I forgot where, go googling and came back.

Found :
It's named TaskKill and seemd to be already there.
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/docu ... p/all/prod

(search TaskKill)

Examples

The following examples show how you can use the taskkill command:

taskkill /pid 1230 /pid 1241 /pid 1253
taskkill /f /fi "USERNAME eq NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM" /im notepad.exe
taskkill /s srvmain /f /im notepad.exe
taskkill /s srvmain /u maindom\hiropln /p p@ssW23 /fi "IMAGENAME eq note*" /im *
taskkill /s srvmain /u maindom\hiropln /fi "USERNAME ne NT*" /im *
taskkill /f /fi "PID ge 1000" /im *

Thanks, I'll give it a try

I have a feeling it just wraps a call to the normal windows library function that task manager also uses though.