Sounds like you're using Vista (XP has an "End process" button rather than "Finish process"). If so, you have my sympathies. In any case, try right-clicking on the process and using the context menu. In XP, at least, one of the options is "End process tree". Clicking that will kill anything. The joys of Vista are one reason I'm on a deliberate migration from XP to Kubuntu Linux... Marcos R. Cardoso wrote: > I'm kinda bringing this issue to life again, because something > interesting has been happening lately. When I use the task manager to > monitore the processes running on the web server, I usually find some > "php.exe" processes on the memory but they're not working anymore. But > I can't finish them using the "finish process" button (they don't > finish no matter how many times I use the button) and I don't know how > to end them. > > Has anyone gone through this event and managed to end those "stubborn" > processes? > > > TIA -- Bob Stout <rbs@xxxxxxxxxxxx> IM common ID: <rbsjrx> IM clients: AOL/AIM, Google, Yahoo ICQ: 407536892 The rules of life: "Either lead, follow, or get out of the way." "It's easier to get forgiveness than permission." "90% of everything is rubbish." "Excitement is overrated." "Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity."