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I am having a similar problem, but mine gets far enough to go to black screen (completely shuts down) but does not turn off. the same thing happens when restarting. It started occuring DURING the win7 7077 x64 install, and happens 100% of the time. (it will suspend properly, however).

vista x64 works fine. it is a win7 issue, and like i said, fairly widely experienced. and note, when this happens, i cannot shutdown except by holding down the power button.

why would this be related to my processor? numerous people are having the same issue across a range of different machines. it has to do with the admin user having the proper privileges, i would assume. somewhere something is getting messed up either by something to do with UAC or the OS not...

evidently i am not being entirely clear. If right clicking the offending process and clicking either end process or end process tree succeeded in killing it, i would have no gripe. I do not mind the hanging programs, etc. This is to be expected, and is likely to be worked out. The larger...

i will attempt re-enabling UAC, although I have reinstalled the OS three times with varying degrees of success. The first install was the worst, the second was best, and the third is only slightly better than the first install.

removed by poster the problem is not just that it remains listed, because it prohibits the same task (and depending on the task, sometimes others) from being reloaded. and yes, i tried to kill as admin.

I am an official beta tester with MS, and have been since vista closed beta. sorry about that, Ive just reported it on a bunch of forums, and forgot to be more thorough on this. it just doesnt do anything at all. It seems to end the process (and will, for instance, close the window of the...

what most recent update? and from what ive noticed, you can wait hours and itll never complete killing some processes. both explorer.exe and other third party processes.

task manager cannot end processes If you have the machine throttle key in your registry editor Link Removed due to 404 Error you may HELP the issue by following the registry hack listed. If it isnt there, I can offer nothing but hope that microsoft realizes this is a bug and solves it before...