Killing an unresponsive process

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Published on 2010-03-29T11:26:36Z Indexed on 2010/03/29 11:33 UTC
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I had closed an instance of utorrent. The task no longer appears in Applications, however the process utorrent.exe appears in Processes tab of Task Manager. I tried to kill using:

  • Kill process button in Task Manager
  • Kill process option in SysInternals Process Explorer
  • Suspend, resume, restart in SysInternals Process Explorer
  • command prompt by using the command taskkill /f /im utorrent.exe
  • Stop-Process commandlet in Windows PowerShell.

All of these have failed, the process just doesn't end. I cannot restart uTorrent because of the existing process running. Is there anyway I can kill this without having to resort to a system reboot ? I'm using Windows 7 Ultimate, OEM.

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