On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 10:53 PM, Andrew S. Baker <[email protected]> wrote: > I always keep a CMD window open for scenarios like this.
I usually do, too. I also usually have Process Explorer open. But I haven't been able to do much of anything useful with them when this particular failure mode occurs. :) But... SMSS should stay at the same PID all the time, so I can try prep'ing a TASKKILL for it. Worth a shot. > Oh, and remotely, TASKKILL is often more effective than > PSKILL on unresponsive systems. Interesting. OK, I'll give TASKLIST/TASKKILL a try next time, then. Thanks. -- Ben
