chaosphoenix

I have spent quite a while searching for ways to kill processes in Vista. Probably the first things I'm going to be told to do is uninstall/reinstall, run virus scans, etc, but that is not the issue at hand here for me. It looks like I'm not the only one with this issue, as many other users have posted on forums across the net, but most of the responses I've read involve troubleshooting the process/program at hand, instead of locating a way to kill the process. My issue is not just one program, but several. (I am running Vista Ult 32bit)

It is mainly uTorrent hanging, and then end task just closes and hides the windows of it, while leaving the process still running. End Process does nothing and I have tried googling online for ways, using kill.exe, pskill, etc to try to terminate the process to no avail.
I've also had this problem with other software, such as certain games that crashed, etc.

What I am not looking for is troubleshooting, etc.
What I am looking for is a surefire way to kill a process, any process in general, not just the ones I have run into problems with.

I have tried using Task Manager, end task and end process. No Luck.
Command line utilities; taskkill, kill.exe, pskill. No luck here either.

Does anyone have any ideas/suggestions?

PS: I miss XP and how those processes ended when you killed them via Task Manager. >.>