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[chaoticag]

So I've been using windows 7 for a while now, but lately I've been having this problem. Sometimes, a program crashes, and then I'm unable to end it's process in the task manager. I'm not sure why I can't, but this is something of an issue, as it also interferes with my computer shutting down (ie, it has to be shutdown the hard way.) This can happen to any program that crashes as far as I'm aware, once it does, I'm not able to end the process, and the computer thinks that there is still an instance running.

I've run a full virus scan, so no viruses are responsible, ran CCleaner, nothing, ran defraggler. Not sure what is going on.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Now that's strange. If task manager is malfunctioning it probably means something deep is wrong.

[chaoticag]

No, not just taskmanager, now it looks like going into a shell, and trying to /taskkill it does not work

[Heron TSG]

Hey, that's sorta what's happening to my Vista computer. Are you also having problems with the task manager when changing task priority, where you don't have the 'permission' too change it, regardless of giving yourself said permissions?

[chaoticag]

I can change permissions just fine, but I don't have a zombie process to see if it works on that too.

[nenjin]

This might be a computer ownership issue.

Open my Computer.

Right click your C: drive.

Security tab, click Advanced.

Then click the Owner tab. You should see your user account and all the other's on your PC. The current owner is probably "Trusted Installer." Click Edit.

Highlight your user account and check "Replace Owner on Sub-containers and Objects." If it tells you that you don't have permission to do this, and offers to grant you those permissions, do so.

This will take awhile. Once it's done, try to kill the task again.

Alternatively, you can navigate directly to the file in question (if you can find it) and do the process right from that file.

You could also try booting in safe mode and seeing if you can kill the process that way when it has crashed. Although if you're going into a shell....

On thinking it over, it's probably not an ownership issue, but screw Trusted Installer, people should own their own PC's anyways