Impossible to Kill Process...

[Kerem Gümrükcü]

Hi,

i have a application that starts with my logon. As i am an Administrator it
runs under superuser privilleges
and also it needs administrator rights to work properly and as expected, due
it needs access to low-level
apis of windows. But here is the Problem: When i close the application it
still exists in my taskmanager
and i cant kill it. there are no errors or "access denied" messages. the
application seems to be freed but
it is not. you ask yourself, how i can now this? Well, when i try to compile
a new one or try to delete
the application, then i get an "access denied" message. The application
still "sits" in the taskmanager, even
it seems to be closed resp. killed. The Apps parent is the Explorer.exe and
when terminating explorer
and all its childs, even then the app wont "go away". Notably ill get an
"access denied" error when i try to
kill explorer.exe and all its childs. it obviously clear, that this comes
from my application..

Damn, whats that????


My os is windows xp pro with full patches and sp's.
Application is written in VB 6 and behaves (at first!)
like an "clean" vb application without any calls to
deep windows functions...


any ideas...?


Best Regards

Kerem Gümrükcü

 

[S.Sengupta]

you may tryskill
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/pskill.shtml

regards,
ssg MS-MVP

 

[Kerem Gümrükcü]

i already did, and a lot of other tools, including my own written Thread and
Process Killers.
Nothing worked, but why? The Process looks like an orphan, but its parent is
explorer.exe.
i do not use any impersonations code in this application, or any other
applications, that hold
handles on the application. so what is that or what can this be....?


Best regards


Kerem Gümrükcü