Rev’s Thought Dump

I’ve been having issues with Vista, of course.  It can get into a state where SOMETHING on the system freaks out and I can’t even pull task manager up.  I can see it’s icon in the dock going all crazy, but I can’t bring up the task list window and try and fix problems.

What I really wanted was top for windows.  But I couldn’t find that, sometimes being all graphical is a bad thing. But I did manage to find something close enough to what i was looking for: taskkill.  Use it thusly,

taskkill /IM taskmgr.exe

This should kill off that pesky process/app gone mad.  As it was I ran it on task manager and my system returned to normal. So next time you need to kill something like firefox and task manager just won’t come up – how likely is that, really? – try taskkill.

P.S. I have a Core 2 Duo T7300 2.0Ghz system with 2 Gigs of RAM and my experience “Rating” is 3.4.

I loath you, Vista.