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Kill or End Process Without Getting “This System Is Shutting Down”

Posted By Raymond In Category: Computer

Mar
30
2008

Have you ever kill a process or end a task from your task manager and then you get 30 seconds of countdown before it restarts or shutdowns by itself? When trying to manually remove a virus, the first thing to do is to end the process first before removing it from registry. That’s because some virus are persistent and whenever you remove the auto start entry, it’ll add it back again. Let’s say you are trying to end a task of a running virus from your Windows Task Manager. The next thing you get is a popup that says “This system is shutting down. Please save all your work in progress and log off. Any unsaved changes will be lost. This shutdown was initiated by ComputerName\User. Time before shutdown…”

This system is shutting down. Please save all your work in progress and log off. Any unsaved changes will be lost.

Here is how to kill or end a process without getting “This system is shutting down” error popup.


In Windows, one process can potentially spawn or trigger another process to have a child process. If you’ve used Process Explorer before, you’ll know what I mean because it gives you a clear view on that.

To be able to kill the process without getting your system shut down, use the “End Process Tree” from Windows Task Manager instead of end process. However, if you’re trying to kill a virus process, most probably it has already disabled your Task Manager. When trying to launch Task Manager, you get the error “Task manager has been disabled by your administrator”.
Task

Instead of trying to restore Task Manager from registry, you can download a very useful tool called Process Explorer by Sysinternals to do it. Simply right click on the process, and select Kill Process Tree. Alternatively, you can use the keyboard shortcut “Shift+Del”.

Process Explorer Kill Process Tree

No more getting “This system is shutting down” error when trying to kill a virus process.

[ Download Sysinternals Process Explorer ]


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    • http://www.thetritech.net Shay

      To stop the shutdown command just run \\\\\\\”shutdown /a\\\\\\\” from the start menu or have it as a shortcut

    • http://www.raymond.cc/ Raymond

      That’s right. Thanks for pointing that out Shay. If Windows doesn’t shutdown immediately, you can abort it by using the shutdown -a or /a command.

    • Koly

      I usually use this command \”Shutdown -a\” whenever I got this error.

      Thanks anyway for this third party software.

    • http://free-iphone-apple.blogspot.com mark

      Another way to fix that error is to find some keys in your registry to delete, b/c it is in the wrong “network domain”. I had to fix this error (after researching it online) after a computer was bought.

      It was configured to go through an internal network, and that was causing a conflict. I just deleted those keys, and it worked out fine.

    • bsv

      does this kill the program even if ur admin disables ending that program?

    • elon

      the system shutdown in 00:00:01 sec, i cant terminate it manually in cmd mode

    • http://awesome-tech.blogspot.com hariharakumar

      My system is infected with virus , i will trying using this software.

    • http://www.rapidpremium.net Hamza

      To kill that box…

      You can open up notepad.. and type

      Shutdown -a

      And save it as kill.bat.
      Keep it on your desktop. As soon as you get that message, simply double click this ‘kill.bat’ and whooop.. gone :D

    • Pat

      Excuse me, my computer cannot go to the cmd mode since it already shuts down before I could open anything. is there any alternative to this?

    • coder

      You’d better use strip_slashes on these comments because this ””’ is butt ugly ;)

    • http://rofl sfs.ucoz.com

      Open cmd type ther shutdown -a
      and be happy

    • http://profiles.friendster.com/abbylavigne Abby

      How will i know the virus presents in my computer?
      Here are some that I encountered some of these are solved already but but there’s still not:

      UNSOLVED >whenever I run CMD
      UNSOLVED >whenever I’m trying to unistall some programs from control panel (add remove program) program like PC Tools Antivirus.. it’s useless anyways…
      SOLVED > task manager disabled
      SOLVED >automatic hidden folders everytime I’d like to shown those hidden folders
      SOLVED >folder options disabled

      Hope anyone can solve my problem…
      I installed many antiviruses.. Avira was the one that is the best for me.. I removed plenty of high risk viruses including Isass.exe and I forgot the others..
      As of now I do have this Registry Booster, SpeedUpmyPc, SptwareEraser and the best for me so far as i’ d tried ever antiviruses.. Avira

      Perhaps you could tell me guys what was the best antivirus…

      Thanks!..
      Abby from Philippines!

    • vhievhaneah

      how can i input these commands if i can’t open cmd since the system is shutting down?

    • jeev

      Excuse me, my computer cannot go to the cmd mode since it already shuts down before I could open anything. is there any alternative to this?

    • josh

      download NOOB KILLER.. works perfectly

    • try this…

      type it in start–>run..

    • 1nd1g0

      At first use Win+R to run console, type in

      shutdown /a

      forehand and usr pretyped sting by pressing S and DOWN then.

      The second idea: use Auto Hot Key Script (ahk) or similar automating scripts (JS, VBS…) to monitor the moment popup appears with the following shutdown /a command \’shellexecute\’-d. The best way IMHO ))

    • 1nd1g0

      Of course i mean System Shutdown popup monitored by title (bad way) or by text “This sistem is shutting…” (better) or\and any other attributes…

    • sunkumar KOTHARI

      TANKS A LOT AND AM FAN OF PROCESS EXPLORER THOUGH IT SEEMS SLIGHT BUGGY BUT WONDERFUL FUNCTIONALITY.

    • ProvenHelper

      Easy steps to abort shutdown:
      - Go to start
      - Go to Run
      - Type shutdown -a

      The auto-shutdown should stop!

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