Support NeoGAF

[Wendo]

I don't understand why it's so hard for WinXP to force quit a program. Win95/98/Me did it just fine, and the program AppSwat can do it instantly.

 

[demon]

I've always wondered the same. It baffles me, and it's frequently annoying.

 

[Ecrofirt]

Task Manager>End Process Tree usually kills things instantly

 

[demon]

Task Manager>End Process Tree usually kills things instantly

not rly

 

[Naked Snake]

what

 

[Jill Sandwich]

Task Manager>End Process Tree usually makes the PC hang 5 minutes until the Not Responding box pops up, then asks you if you want to report the fuckup to Microsoft, then freezes again.

I concur.

 

[Mr Gump]

How do you force quit something?

End process usually works after a small wait (usually).

 

[Jill Sandwich]

Force Quit is a Mac term

 

[blahness]

How do you force quit something?

End process usually works after a small wait (usually).

to kill the wait after ending a process in xp you can also kill the dumprep.exe process which its the process that gathers the information to send to microsoft and prompts you if you want to send it or not

 

[8bit]

to kill the wait after ending a process in xp you can also kill the dumprep.exe process which its the process that gathers the information to send to microsoft and prompts you if you want to send it or not

What he said. The dumprep daemon is useless. Turn it off in Services.

 

[Particle Physicist]

What he said. The dumprep daemon is useless. Turn it off in Services.

ooh. how?

 

[blahness]

ooh. how?

hit start - click run - type in: services.msc
double click on the Error Reporting Service - change the startup type to disabled - click apply and ok

 

[Phoenix]

Yeah, it certainly is an annoyance. When I tell you to kill a process - kill -9 that sucker. I could give a rats ass if its doing something, just kill it and force all its allocated resources free.

 

[Crow]

ooh. how?

Go Start > Run (or the windows key + r)
type services.msc and hit enter
scroll down until you find "Error Reporting Service"
Double click...hit the "stop" button to stop the service then disable it (should be obvious how).

I dunno if they mean there is another one to disable other than that though.


EDIT: damn I took too long....got beat to it.

 

[Particle Physicist]

hit start - click run - type in: services.msc
double click on the Error Reporting Service - change the startup type to disabled - click apply and ok

cool thanks. any other bullshit services i can disable?

 

[blahness]

cool thanks. any other bullshit services i can disable?

off the top of my head:

wireless zero configuration: if you DONT have a wireless network or wireless card in your computer, disable this one.

messenger: this one is not used outside of a networked environment and was the source of many annoying spam popups a few years back. disable it unless you do NET SEND to other computers on your network

windows firewall/ICS: if you DONT use windows firewall or Internet Connection Sharing, disable it

if you look in the processes tab in task manager and are wondering what all of those svchost.exe things are do this.

click start - hit run - type in: cmd
click ok - type in: tasklist /svc

this should give you the same processes list but should also tell you what those svchost.exes are doing.

go back into your task manager and click the View menu and then click on Select Columns.
click the box for PID (Process Identifier). This should now give you a column that has the PID for each process running. Now you can kill those processes that wont be killed in task manager by using the command line tool called taskkill. to do this:

click start - hit run - type in: cmd
click ok - type in: taskkill /pid <type in the PID of the process you want to kill>

 

[Particle Physicist]

off the top of my head:

wireless zero configuration: if you DONT have a wireless network or wireless card in your computer, disable this one.

messenger: this one is not used outside of a networked environment and was the source of many annoying spam popups a few years back. disable it unless you do NET SEND to other computers on your network

windows firewall/ICS: if you DONT use windows firewall or Internet Connection Sharing, disable it

messenger has already been disabled.. and i use the other two. thanks though. :/

 

[callous]

My question seems like it would go well with this thread, and the question is this:

Why, oh why, do I have to wait a minute or more for MSN messenger to log off? About two out of ten times, it logs off almost instantly, but the remaining 8 times has me waiting forEVER for it to log off. Is there a fix for this craptacular MS blunder?

 

[DarienA]

Even if you USE a Wireless Card turn off wireless zero configuration and just use the app that comes with your wireless card... really MUCH less of a headache considering on some machines WZC will do the disconnect your wireless connection ever X minutes trick.

 

[Particle Physicist]

Even if you USE a Wireless Card turn off wireless zero configuration and just use the app that comes with your wireless card... really MUCH less of a headache considering on some machines WZC will do the disconnect your wireless connection ever X minutes trick.

ive never had an issue with WZC, in fact, i disabled the app that came with my card since i was having some odd issues with it.

 

[shattyboombatty]

Here is an awesome guide to configuring the XP services:

http://majorgeeks.com/page.php?id=12


Here is a MUCH better process managing program than the default windows one:

http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/ProcessExplorer.html

 

[Particle Physicist]

Here is an awesome guide to configuring the XP services:

http://majorgeeks.com/page.php?id=12


Here is a MUCH better process managing program than the default windows one:

http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/ProcessExplorer.html

awesome. thanks.