If the driver is well-behaved, it cleans up the bookkeeping for the incomplete I/O, cleans up the thread state and releases the thread.
But the kernel-mode part can't go away until all drivers are finished with the thread(s) that belong to that process.įor example, if a thread is executing an I/O operation, the kernel signals to the driver responsible for the I/O that the operation should be canceled. When you kill a process, the user-mode part of the process is thrown away. This has nothing to do with W7, this is true for all Windows NT based OS versions. I am now pressing/holding the power button to shut down. If this is the wrong sub forum to place this in, please tell me and I will repost in another.Īny reply on this would be useful, this problem is about as bad as it can possibly get for an operating system. explorer.exe has now been stalled and hung for 48 minutes without doing ANYTHING. I recognize that it could be a driver malfunctioning or something, but the operating system NEEDS to allow you to kill unresponsive processes. I am at a loss, and will have to stop using the OS altogether. This problem occured in vista as well, but it seems substantially worse in windows 7. At the time of this posting, explorer.exe has two instances open in task manager, neither of which I am able to kill with end task, or right click and end process or process tree (although the child programs they spawned that WERE responding when end process was pressed will close). I should also note that taskkill /f does NOTHING but reports "success" when you attempt to kill a a program. Additionally, when this happens, you are forced to turn off your computer by holding down the power button, because it will never complete the shutdown sequence. ĪV: avast! Antivirus *Disabled/Updated* : DhcpNameServer = 71.9.127.107 68.190.192.35 68.Is anyone else having the issue where sometimes when a program will hang (either a 3rd party like mozilla firefox/thunderbird or explorer.exe) clicking end task does nothing at all? It is very VERY frustrating. Could anything other a virus cause this?į:\Users\Jamez\favorites\mp3 downloads - another obscure corrs mp3 site.url (Rogue.Link) -> Quarantined and deleted successfully. I haven't tried booting from my conventional internal HD but I'm afraid that'll get corrupted too so I'm hesitant to yet.
I've rebooted several times and nothing has changed in terms of my access.Īlso, sometimes when I'm trying to install something it'll say that Windows Installer is messed up and I can't even seem to replace that via the files I tried to download off microsoft's website. Also downloaded and ran Spybot S&D which found 2 things but correcting those didn't solve problem.
I ran a full Avast check which didn't find much, just 1 sketchy mp3 I've had for a long time on one of my external HDs (I have 2 connected total) which didn't solve the problem. I have 2 Harddrives, both have Windows 7 64-bit installed, the primary being a solid-state drive, and the other being a conventional HD. I am the only user on the computer so am the Administrator. You may not have the appropiate permission to access the item." The error message in each instance is "Windows cannot access the specified device path or file.
I then noticed I would get an error whenever I tried to click the icon to access my directories under explorer or access the control panel. Last night, I noticed my network icon in the bottom right showed a red "X" even though I am still able to use the internet.
Haven't visited any sketchy websites or opened any suspicious e-mails/programs as far as I remember. Hi, got a new computer about a month ago and immediately installed Avast as anti-virus.