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I am using the Dropbox Desktop tool and upload (for my bandwidth) large amounts of data regularly. When I want to e.g. play online I just pause the upload. Since a few days when I pause it, it keeps using bandwidth even if I kill the process.

My resource monitor shows multiple Dropbox threads uploading data AFTER I killed the process using CMD:

taskkill /f /t /im Dropbox.exe

When I use the same command again the output says that no process with that name was found, but my resource monitor still shows this:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/78029180/dropbox.png

Thanks for you help.

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  • Have you waited an appropriate time (10-20 seconds) for updated information in Resource Monitor?
    – Daniel B
    Commented May 7, 2014 at 9:20
  • yeah I did. waited half an hour and the threads stayed active.
    – Tobias Dummschat
    Commented May 18, 2014 at 21:22
  • I see. That means the process wasn’t killed after all. Threads don’t exist without a parent process. Please take a look with Process Explorer. Before killing the process, remember the process ID.
    – Daniel B
    Commented May 19, 2014 at 7:31

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