unable to kill process / logout on windows server 2003

Posted by vitalik on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by vitalik
Published on 2010-05-27T12:47:12Z Indexed on 2010/05/27 12:52 UTC
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My own console .net application stuck in a "ghost" stage. It just shows a window that i can't close. It doesn't show up as a process in the task manager.

when i try to "find windows process" using Process Explorer (from sysinternals) it says there is no process that owns that window or something like that.

The problem is that it doesn't allow me to logout or reboot the server (remotely) because logoff process keeps waiting on that window to close.

shutdown /r /f also is stuck waiting for it.

I can probably have somebody go an reboot the server but i'd like to know if there is a way to close that process, close that session or force logout remotely.

This is windows server 2003, but i had the same issue on XP just a few days ago.

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