Reviews of KillProcess

1. 
   Reverb

   Reviewing 2.44 (Sep 3, 2009)

   I have compared this to Process Explorer and while it is missing most of the features PE has it's advertised as having the ability to end any process or service including protected Microsoft processes. Window's built-in Task Manager won't let you end those but both PE and KillProcess will so this doesn't offer any advantage over PE. If you have Norton AV products running on your system there is a protected process called Ccsvchst.exe that cannot be terminated with either KillProcess or PE.
   
   Summary: Good, no advantage over PE which offers more information for each running process. Would be a 5 if it could end ANY protected process.
2. 
   dhry

   Reviewing 2.44 Beta (Apr 25, 2009)

   Not a bad program, but loses one star because the "remember window size on exit" doesn't actually remember the window size on exit.
3. 
   emanresU deriseD

   Reviewing 2.44 Beta (Apr 7, 2009)

   I wish I had discovered this site in time to join the argument regarding Process Explorer and process termination. I find it hilarious that someone actually thought PE could kill any process. If you believe that, you must not have a decent AV program installed, and you must not know about the other applications that prevent themselves from being terminated easily. It's somewhat common, actually.
   
   KillProcess uses special techniques that enable it to kill many more things than PE can. Most people don't need it and this kind of power can bring down your whole system. Still, powerful utility.
4. 
   anomoly

   Reviewing 2.44 Beta (Apr 7, 2009)

   Can't comment on this as I use file assassin for 'killing' processes but it has the added option of deleting them which apparently neither this nor process explorer has.
5. 
   flibberyGiveIt

   Reviewing 2.43 Alpha 3 (Aug 19, 2008)

   I can't do a real eval of this as I've currently no
   protected (Can't be killed by taskmanager, PRCView,
   Process Explorer or that other one) apps to kill,
   especially none that are out of control and causing
   the system to take subjective hours (20 seconds?)
   to respond to a mouse click.
   Works fine for killing Notepad and MPlayer, works
   better in semi-vicious mode with sounds off.
   I love the list feature--Clean OS could be very
   useful in list info's default mode, and since lists
   can be edited I could add, say, Comodo, WinPatrol,
   Admuncher... to the list to make it even better
   for just my personal preferences.
   
   Hmm, I wonder whether a malware author could edit
   those lists, naah, and if so isn't like I wouldn't
   notice and kill those apps anyway.
   Note that this is not for the type off people who
   shouldn't be trying beta vers.

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