Impolite programs

den2k88

Kill its process and all its descendants. Purge the sacred land that is my CPU with the blood of the offender.

GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver

snorkie

Did you click on another executable email attachment? :laugh:

Hogan

WorkOnlineClick2Wealth

The Photo Studio Media Browsing service that came with my printer is very bad about this.

Maximilien

I look at the process manager, it it seems that it does nothing, I will kill it; if it seems to be doing something, I let it run some more.

I'd rather be phishing!

Slacker007

Sounds like the intro to a great movie, perhaps. :thumbsup:

den2k88

Alas it won't ever beat "The world is changed. I feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost, for none now live who remember it.".

GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver

Duncan Edwards Jones

Take off and reboot it from space - it's the only way to be sure.

Chris Maunder

You'd go Keyser Söze on it?

cheers Chris Maunder

raddevus

Chris Maunder wrote:

This program can't close at the moment".

I love it when you allow Windows update to close processes and restart computer and Windows update is frozen because it is waiting on Windows Update to close. Windows Update, you had me at...updating... X| X| X|

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den2k88

I'd get medieval on its... Mule? Donkey? :D

GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver

Gary Wheeler

Keyser Söze[^] (for the uncivilized riff-raff, including myself)

Software Zen: delete this;

Gary Wheeler

My favorite example of this is Visual Studio, when it crashes while exiting. It will catch the crash, and restart itself :rolleyes: .

Software Zen: delete this;

RedDk

My only experience with this type of thing occurs when I'm drinking Red White & Blue. I suppose that's reason enough, you'd say to yourself; "guy's multitasking at the bar and his browser won't be graceful and the congeners are getting to his brain". But I have to say, WHEN this occurs NOW, I always think back to that time when it occured THEN. And if I had it to do all over again, I'd simply grab the nearest chud by the neck of his Tee and smash him one in the gob. Then see what happens.

CPallini

Wait man, patiently wait. That jvm will eventually terminate.

Ravi Bhavnani

I'm running Windows AI. When I try to run a program I really didn't mean to run, Clippy says "It seems you really didn't mean to run <application name>, so I'm going to ignore your request." I :love: AI. /ravi

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Mycroft Holmes

Ok so you are talking about VS2015 - I sit there patiently waiting for the bloody thing to finish, mainly because if I corrupt my primary work tool by jumping on it I'm going to feel like a right idiot as I spend 3 hours reinstalling it.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH

Mark_Wallace

It's doubtful you'll have time to investigate properly what it's doing, but if you haven't knowingly given the program the right to access the Internet, pull the cable/slam your firewall down, to see how it reacts. If it's something like acrobat, which shouldn't be performing any background operations anyway, kill the process tree. ElseIf it's something that has to move files around, it might be waiting for a response from windows' delayed write processes, so I'd give it a few seconds.

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R Erasmus

Press the shutdown button and right before the computer actually shutsdown, after the process was killed, cancel the shutdown.

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Stefan_Lang

When I saw the title I was thinking about sth else entirely: the windows bluescreen messages telling me that I shouldn't shut down my PC by simply switching it off. I always found that offending, and more offending every time it happened again! Of course I never did that to start with! Assuming the user is an idiot really isn't the best way to apologize for an unstable system! :mad: Then again, as a software develeoper, whenever I get an error report, my first assumption is that the user is an idiot ;P But at least I don't tell it to their face :rose: As for your actual question, I'll check task manager to find out if it is anything that deserves to live. (i. e. sth I initiated, or sth that tries to preserve sth I did) If not ... :thumbsdown:

GOTOs are a bit like wire coat hangers: they tend to breed in the darkness, such that where there once were few, eventually there are many, and the program's architecture collapses beneath them. (Fran Poretto)

Herbie Mountjoy

Check to see if there is any disk access going on. If not, KILL KILL KILL. As for Windows update. I know a young lady who got fed up after waiting two hours for her PC to shut down. She pulled the plug and trashed the hard drive. I guess the warning is there fir folk like that.

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