{"id":574,"date":"2015-12-15T15:26:05","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T04:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/?post_type=article&#038;p=574"},"modified":"2022-12-01T19:53:36","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T08:53:36","slug":"error-the-process-with-pid-xxxx-could-not-be-terminated-reason-access-is-denied","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/article\/error-the-process-with-pid-xxxx-could-not-be-terminated-reason-access-is-denied\/","title":{"rendered":"ERROR: The Process with PID xxxx could not be terminated. Reason: Access is denied"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes when attempting to Kill a Process in Windows you may receive the following message:<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;ERROR: The Process with PID xxxx\u00a0could not be terminated. Reason: Access is denied&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>where xxxx is the PID number of the process which you are trying to kill.<\/p>\n<p>We have found that the best way to kill a process in Windows where you are getting an Access denied message is to use a tool like <a href=\"http:\/\/processhacker.sourceforge.net\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Process Hacker<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Access-Denied-killing-a-process.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-575\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-575 size-full\" data-original=\"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Access-Denied-killing-a-process.png\" alt=\"ERROR: The Process with PID xxxx could not be terminated. Reason: Access is denied\" width=\"679\" height=\"253\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sometimes there are processes however which can&#8217;t be killed without rebooting the machine. \u00a0For example:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Processes which run at the kernel level<\/li>\n<li>Processes which have a buggy driver<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please also keep in mind that a windows machine could become unstable after killing some processes and may force it to reboot regardless.<\/p>\n<div style='text-align:left' class='yasr-auto-insert-visitor'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes when attempting to Kill a Process in Windows you may receive the following message: &#8220;ERROR: The Process with PID xxxx\u00a0could not be terminated. Reason: Access is denied&#8221; where xxxx is the PID number of the process which you are trying to kill. We have found that the best way to kill a process in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","article-category":[57],"article-tag":[461],"class_list":["post-574","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","article-category-windows-server","article-tag-access-denied-kill-process"],"yasr_visitor_votes":{"stars_attributes":{"read_only":false,"span_bottom":false},"number_of_votes":7,"sum_votes":24},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-category?post=574"},{"taxonomy":"article-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-tag?post=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}