From: "Geo" 

If kill.exe from the reskit can't kill it then look for a drwatson.exe
running and try killing that. If you still can't kill it then the
powerswitch is your only other option.

Geo.

"Hrvoje Mesing"  wrote in
message news:41c43692{at}w3.nls.net...
> Hi,
>
> (again me: ),
>
> Windows XP SP2 box, which has IIS running, Kerio WRF running.
>
> User worked in mmc with IIS snap in.
> While configuring HTTPS ports, on OK press on the dialog, the same frozed.
>
> We saw that mmc which was supporting IIS snap-in is still working.
> So, We killed the process, We tryed to kill the process, It didnt want to
> die.
> We tryed forcing it to shut down with taskkill /f - noting.
>
> We used YKill aplication to check for freezed/broken windows, it found one
> dead dialog - corresponds to IIS HTTPS port confguration window name, alo
it
> found few iss*.dll that had frozen windows.
> We tryed to kill/destroy them - nothing.
>
> What is the best solution in this case ?
>
> After running mmc with IIS snap-in again, It worked nicley, but dead
dialog
> window was still on desktop.
>
> After rebooting, everyting was ok.
>
> Anyone knows the best way to deal with it ?
>
> I think, because taskkill "modules" can kill *.dll_s, that kill those
> IIS*.dll_s could result in window/dialog shutdown, still I do not like
this
> solution, Im in search for new.
>
> Also, I will test Wintasks window destroy option when and if this happens
> again.
>
> Thank You,
>
>
> ---
> M.
>
>

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