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Programs won't Completely close all other associated exe's

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by cavasozjacques

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Hi all! Although I said I wanted a specific answer, I'm very open to discussion as well. I'm using Win XP Pro w/sp2 and all updates. I have my personal machine tweaked to run great. However, I have googled exhaustively to see if anyone might have a registry fix/edit or idea on how to completely close programs in XP. For example, when you open iTunes and you go to Task Manager, you get Itunes.exe, IpodService.exe, AppleMobileDeviceHelper.exe, and distnoted.exe. So, when you close iTunes, you close iTunes.exe and AppleMobileService.exe, but not distnoted.exe and iPodservice.exe. My question is, does anyone know or have any idea how, when you close a program,to make Windows close not only the open program, but any associated programs which have opened with the program. I have made one registry change and added the AlwaysUnloadDLL key, and this works great, but it doesn't close down a program and all associated programs with it. Any ideas, thoughts, tips, or tweaks are much appreciated. Thanks in advance!

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by blackdiamond

Hey,

Are the items you want to close when the programs close running before you open the programs? My guess is that they are. Some programs have services or TSRs that run all of the time even when the program is not running. It is possible that if you do get these to close your applications that require them may not run right when you try to open them because these other items are not running.

Not much of a fix, but something to watch for.

by cavasozjacques

Robo_dev, i agree with you totally. it appears that apple is just taking advantage of the existing problems with MS XP and making it worse. in response to black-diamond, i did check out your suggestion. unfortunately, no, those services aren't running beforehand. i've noticed, too, that Windows Media Center also does the same thing as iTunes. whenever you load Media Center, ehtray.exe, ehsched.exe, ehshell.exe

, and then ehmsas.exe. you close MC, ehshell.exe is the only one that closes, the other three stay in memory. it seems to be either a product of poorly written code on behalf of MS or is a setting in the registry. more ideas?

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