command lineprocesswindowswindows 8.1
Since yesterday I was trying to kill hl2.exe (Team Fortress 2) process and:
Task Manager wont show that hl2.exe is running
Process Manager&Process Hacker 2 says "Access denied" When tried to kill the process.
I opened Process Manager, Process Hacker 2 and Command Prompt as administrator but it still didnt worked.
I really ran out of ideas as to what I should do and I really need to fix this.
It really is a "non-existent process" as stated in this answer in SysInternals forums:
If a process shows "<Non-existent Process>" as its parent process in Process Explorer, it means that the parent process has exited.
If you check the next Process Creation Tree for Code.exe, you can see that:
The original Code.exe process creates a lot of new processes, and this ones open an closes cmd.exe processes, getmac.exe, and more Code.exe.
After all the chain of events, you have several Code.exe running, some of them orphans from a cmd.exe opened by another Code.exe.
There is your "Non-existent process" for Code.exe
Best Answer
Try
taskkill /im hl2.exe /t /f. Be sure to run a command prompt with administrative priviledges (right click on theStartbutton, it should be one of the available options).