Kill Hang Process

[Chintan]

Sir, how is it possible to terminate a hanged application from another VC++ application ? C.R.Naik

[Abbas_Riazi]

Use this employed technique from this article[^] to find your hanged process then use process API function to kill it.

[Mike Nordell]

Note that in some instances it's actually impossible to kill a process, even on NT! Some kernel calls are implemented in a way that they can hang (around) in kernel mode almost indefinitely. Trying to kill such a process is futile - it simply won't die. Also note that this design (though I'd personally call it a very serious flaw) prohibits you from even logging out - Windows wants to kill the process, which can't be killed. The only way to get out of this mess (except for waiting 365 years or so) is, really, a hardware reset.