I have a PC that I don’t like much but have to use. I don’t like the software configuration on the machine but don’t have any real choices in the matter. I won’t go into it more than that…
So today I am trying to get something done and as usual the machine is crawling along about 74.297% +/- 2.72% slower than it should likely be performing. Very likely it as something to do with Symantec EP running on the machine which I hate[1] and finally said screw it, I will reboot and maybe that will fix it… It has sort of worked in the past and I hadn’t rebooted in a week or two (preferring instead to hibernate)… So I click on restart, nothing. Click on it again, nothing. Click on it again, it stubbornly refrains… Great a Windows machine that refuses to go down. ;o)
My solution… no it wasn’t pull the battery, that would have worked but I wanted the OS to be somewhat involved in the shutdown so it was aware that I was unhappy with it so I opened a command prompt and typed
taskkill /fi “IMAGENAME=s*” /f
Then I finally got the “system is shutting down” dialog to pop up. 🙂
When the machine came back up it was quite a bit more responsive. Good thing too as I was about to put the bad little laptop in the corner…
To everyone in the US of A… Have a great Labor Day Weekend.
joe
[1] I dislike all AV and antimalware software on my machines. Running it you are always as slow as you would be during the brief times you maybe get infected with something. Well brief for me, I am a paranoid web surfer and never had the interest to see Brittany Spears or Paris Hilton nude so am in general safe…
