Questions tagged [process]
A process is a binary program running continuously on a computer (until terminated) which is managed by the operating system.
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Find process from window or vice versa in task manager?
I have multiple instances of an app running. One of the instances is frozen and I want to end it forcefully in Task Manager, while preserving all others.
I'm trying to find it in Task Manager but I ...
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How to spawn a perfectly silent daemon in ZSH which would last only for the session?
This question is quite similar to this one, although it's a bit more constrained. I would like to start a background job, but:
I don't want any [1] 769021 to be printed.
I don't want only this ...
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Do processes always consume battery and cpu or are they neutral on cpu and memory usage while "inactive"?
If a process in Windows OS is currently inactive (not doing any work) does that mean that it doesn't consume any power and cpu/gpu resources?
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Can't close Google Chrome app
I closed Google Chrome window, but it is still in TaskManager's process list and when I try to do "End Process" I get this:
What can cause this?
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windows11 - ai.exe is locking a folder that needs to be routinely deleted
I have a folder that routinely needs to be deleted by a program and remade. It's simply how the program works. Suddenly a short while back, the program stopped being able to delete the folder. I tried ...
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How do you kill a process that can't be killed with kill -9?
Context: I need to create a floppy disk. I have a modern USB floppy disk drive, I want to run badblocks first to ensure that the "new" (new floppy disks are actually old new stock) floppy ...
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How do I check what is killing a process?
I have problem with chrome. It works only when main executable is renamed. It appears that something is killing it but I cannot find it. I tried WinApiOverride with no results (TerminateProcess or ...
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Windows 11 on 16 core processor reduces CPU utilization when minimizing python processing console window - WHY?
I have a weird issue when doing long term image processing on my 16 core 24 thread i7 13700k processor, on windows 11 pro. My processing lasts for hours so I fire up several python scripts in ...
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Windows 10 on Ryzen 1700x starts processes slowly
I have Windows 10 (22H2, 10.0.19045) installed on the following system:
Ryzen 1700x
32 GB of RAM
1 TB Samsung 970 EVO (M.2)
Windows Defender virus scanner.
About 2 months ago, the system started ...
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How do I kill processes which are running with a given executable path?
I know already how I can kill all java.exe processes
taskkill /F /IM java.exe
But when it comes to a full executable path D:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_331\bin\java.exe, how do I do ?
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macOS: pkill a specific process without sudo?
Because of some recent bluetooth issues, I need to be able to run sudo pkill bluetoothd quite frequently, so I decided to create a shell script Shortcut to have on my menu bar for quick access. I ...
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Windows: Kill processes by arguments [closed]
I'm on Windows 10. I want to kill all processes that have the word "foobar" in their command line arguments. How can I do that in the terminal, without touching the mouse?
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How can i dump the contents of a file that was opened with nano in a running process? (Linux)
I have run the command ps -ef and found the following :
UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD
root 1 0 0 12:30 ? 00:00:00 socat tcp-l:1024,reuseaddr,f
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Arbitrary other processes hang when I "pause" one - how can I pause processes "better"/figure out how to un-deadlock?
Sometimes, I'm running massive compiles (and similar) on my machine, mostly unattended. Typically, those require intervention every now and then, and this intervention requires googling. So far so ...
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Why do processes start appearing at the top of the tree's root instead of where they should, underneath wininit.exe and explorer.exe?
Why do these processes appear at the top of the Process Explorer window instead of below the wininit.exe section where they should be?
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Starts happening after about 10-30 minutes of system ...
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