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August 29, 2008 at 12:42 pm #2145864
Windows XP processes don’t shut down all the way.
Lockedby adam · about 15 years, 7 months ago
No matter what application it is… from Word to Firefox to PhotoShop. XP refuses to shut the application down all the way.
The app closes and it disappears off of my start menu…. but the process is still active.
This is particularly annoying with Firefox… since it’s got a run once feature intended to prevent intrusions.
Does anyone know a fix for this issue?
I do run Norton 360… but I don’t think that’s the reason for this issue.
Best,
Adam Fiveson
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August 29, 2008 at 12:42 pm #2789343
Clarifications
by adam · about 15 years, 7 months ago
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Clarifications
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August 29, 2008 at 1:05 pm #2789326
Weird
by Anonymous · about 15 years, 7 months ago
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But for the record, my FireFox does that sometimes. No help…
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October 31, 2008 at 4:37 pm #2803629
I have the same problem
by mikeaaaaaa22 · about 15 years, 5 months ago
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My processes don’t shut down automatically either when I exit an app. I have had the problem for about two months. Did you ever find a solution?
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November 17, 2008 at 3:44 pm #2981522
what i do
by barbara230 · about 15 years, 5 months ago
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I open winXP task manager and close the program. My problem has been with IE not closing then having two copies of IE open at the same time, dragging everything down the tubes.
barbara
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November 17, 2008 at 4:41 pm #2982522
wild guess
by pgit · about 15 years, 5 months ago
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Try this:
http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php
I’ve had Norton, McAfee, CA and AVG (IIRC) miss malware that this tool found. One of the complaints was apps not exiting completely. Worth a try at least.
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November 17, 2008 at 4:43 pm #2982520
Performance Issues In XP
by dh9777usa1 · about 15 years, 5 months ago
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You’re problem may be related to 1 or more performance settings in XP. Here is a link to the page where an automated performance checker can be downloaded from MS and could possibly help.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308417-
November 17, 2008 at 5:55 pm #2982503
Tip of the Iceberg
by jajansenjr · about 15 years, 5 months ago
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The problem described is the tip of the iceberg, in the sense that it is not clear which processes you can see with task manager are really needed or not. Is there some way to identify what processes are needed (or not)? Better, is there a “super task manager” replacement for the task manager which would be more useful in making the XP system “lean and mean”?
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November 17, 2008 at 7:22 pm #2982471
Task Manager Replacement
by bdfew · about 15 years, 5 months ago
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http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx
I use Process Explorer which was by Sysinternals but MS bought them out. It still works much better that task manager.
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November 18, 2008 at 2:05 am #2982363
XP process shutdowns
by iwm21 · about 15 years, 5 months ago
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You are not the only one with these dispersed problems.
Are the users profiles kept locally or on a server? (Worse still a SAN).
If the “My Documents” is re-directed to a server rather than local that can have problems. Though it depends on the number of users contesting for disk access on the storage.We are running Network Associates antivirus with their desktop firewall.
One problem is that they can often be red-herrings but try installing a virtual machine (VMWare makes it easy to do) and build the same machine in different stages – basic, with[out] Norton, with[out] “My Documents” re-directed, with[out] local profiles, etc.
MS do recommend using local and syncronising profiles … try that as well.Let me know how you get on … we’ve had to settle (for the time being) on the least worst solution for us.
Ian
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November 18, 2008 at 6:53 am #2982282
I thought this was a single user issue only
by dh9777usa1 · about 15 years, 5 months ago
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It didn’t sound as though this could be a network related issue but more like it was happening on the local machine, correct me if I’m wrong.
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November 18, 2008 at 7:26 am #2982266
Regedit…..
by —tk— · about 15 years, 5 months ago
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This is AT YOUR OWN RISK! This registry patch tells Windows to automatically unload DLL’s from closed applications from memory. Some applications are left running in memory after they are closed
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\
Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer
\AlwaysUnloadDLL]@=”1″
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November 18, 2008 at 11:47 am #2983480
UHPClean might help
by popsfry · about 15 years, 5 months ago
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You can try running UHPClean (a free utility from the MS downloads). It was created because of issues caused by open processes on Win2K and XP that would cause workstations to take forever to shut down. I’ve used it in corporate environments; it’s worked well. Hope this helps.
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November 18, 2008 at 6:44 pm #2983359
Norton 360
by hpv · about 15 years, 5 months ago
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I had one user that I was helping out where her machine seemed very slow much of the time. I noticed several instances of Live update running and checked out Forums and Knowledge Base on Symantec. Indications were that Norton 360 (The first version) would try to run a series of small updates instead of just one big one. But the updates never would seem to complete. It suggested that the problem was fixed in Norton 360 2.0 . I tried that and it seemed to do the trick.
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