How can I kill an orphaned process?

A. When a service terminates abnormally, it can sometimes leave an"orphaned" child process behind.

If you have the resource kit you can use the following to view a list of allprocesses and their relationship to one-an-other.

C:> tlist -t

To then kill a process use

C:> kill

If this fails add -F to force the kill, e.g. kill -F . If this still fails you could try submitting the kill command as itwill then run under the computers built in System account:

C:> AT /INTERACTIVE CMD /C KILL -F

(you would need the schedule service to be running for this to work, netstart schedule).

If this still fails one last approach is possible using the Resource KitPVIEW.EXE utility:

If none of the above works you will have to reboot.