I'm trying to debug a Visual Studio C# Windows application that immediately takes over the desktop and disables mouse control. When it freezes, I need to be able to stop it somehow. I can press the windows key or ctrl-alt-delete and access the taskbar, but when I move the mouse onto the main part of my screen it's always an hourglass icon and I can't interact. So when I right-click to close the application on the taskbar and a dialogue pops up asking if I want to stop debugging, there's no way for me to click it. I also can't click on anything in task manager.
I looked into how to end tasks from command prompt, but the directions don't make sense. schtasks /end
requires a task name argument that seems to take a path, but I have no way of knowing what the path is that I'm supposed to input. tasklist
returns file names and ID numbers, but neither of those work for schtasks
.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Best Answer
You can use the command prompt to terminate processes:
cmd
in the Run box and click Enter.tasklist
to list all processes.taskkill /F /IM "executable name.exe" /T
to terminate the process.