Does Windows ever grind to a halt because of unresponsive or “zombie” processes? Is it sometimes so bad that opening Task Manager becomes a task in itself? Fortunately, there's a little-known program called taskkill.exe that does exactly what its name suggests. In this post, I'll show you how to create a shortcut to taskkill.exe that will kill those zombies with a single keystroke.

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