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Originally Posted by Monty Python
Also, a process that restarts itself is frequently a clear symptom of malware. That plus the P2P filesharing program indicates your primary problem (whatever that may be) may be caused by malware.
Forum Rules prohibit giving any support to P2P filesharing, based on the idea that it is used for "illegal" purposes. Which if wrong, obviously as there are legal ways in which to do P2P, but them are the rules, and they really do mean it. So it would be good to not mention that aspect of your situation again.
Finally, killing process is useful for troubleshooting purposes. I have met others that kill processes as a regular routine, and it has always struck me as an inefficient, half-aXXed way to do things. Why is killing processes so important, when there are so many other, more-effective ways to manage them ?
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ok to answer you. yes i understand the generalizations behind P2P filesharing, but my problem isnt with the P2P program specifically. I am bringing it up because, it is one example that has a problem I can replicate, and experiment on, but this pretty much applies to my general computing.
I am pretty sure that I dont have any malware on my system due to P2P, because I know what I'm doing. What happens with me though, is because my P2P client serves files off of an external HDD, which occasionally gets unplugged (on accident.. eek), when that happens, the entire uTorrent program/process totally locks up, whether it be because of the suddenly missing files, or unfinished IO operations, not sure what. I just brought that up as an example, I've had other things hang on me, such as Firefox, when some Flash applet goes awry. Most of these programs recognize instances of themselves, and when you try to start it again, it usually gives you a "The Firefox process is already running, please end the process or reboot your computer." sort of thing. This happens with my bittorrent client uTorrent, i get a "uTorrent is already running, please close the process...." and same with Trillian "Only one instance of Trillian may be running per machine..."
I aim to kill the process, because short of restarting, that is the only way to approach the problem. Alot of programs nowadays detect themselves, and if theyre already running, they try to hook onto that process (and in firefox's case, launch a new browser window, etc), but the problem with that is, if the process itself is stalled, then nothing works, forcing reboot.
to Bhahar84: yes I've tried using taskkill, but it hasnt worked. thanks for your help though.
ps. and monty python, thanks for informing me of the forum rules. I haven't been on here in a while, and I dont recall anything against P2P, I'll keep that in mind in the future.