pyotr filipivich wrote:

Okay, one for de schmart guys.

Every so often, say once or twice a week, Mailwasher.exe hangs up
at the splash screen. Just, sits there.
I've right clicked on the taskbar icon and chosen "exit", clicked
on the red x to close the window. Used Task Manager and Process
Hacker, separately, and sequentially, to attempt to kill the process.
No luck.I've logged out or selected "Restart" as the shutdown option,
and windows has hung up on the "logging out" screen. Normally a
reboot takes long enough I can go warm up a cup of coffee on the
stove, sometimes make a fresh pot. But in this case, I have time to
brew a Fresh Cup from scratch. As in go to Columbia, pick the beans
myself, dry, roast, and grind them. I'm assuming that, I haven't
waited two weeks, I just kill the power when I get back from getting
coffee.

Because until it is dead, I can't start it again.

What I am wondering is, is there a way to determine what
services/modules/handles one might be able to track, hunt down and
terminate, unload, kill, in order to closed down the process, process
tree, or whatever is holding the splashscreen / program open?

I've attempted to close modules through Process Hacker, as well as
terminate specific threads, but no change.

Is this a new "feature" I'm just going to have to live with?

tschus
pyotr

If it were me, I would first test the ram.
If ram is ok then I would remove and reinstall the program.