Randomly Intermittent Thoughts

This is a bit different from my last post about Process Explorer. Process Explorer is so powerful that I accidentally killed a different process than I wanted. This wasn’t through some fancy schmancy search with regular expressions and kill accident. I just highlighted a process and clicked the .

I then proceeded to click ‘Yes’ on the simple dialog: .

Notice the blackened out word at the end of the Dialog’s text? Well that is essentially what my brain did when I read that dialog.

So, long story short I killed the wrong process. Nothing seemed to break for a few hours. Then when I went to debug a couple of things, I wasn’t able to connect to a service that was supposed to be running. I restarted somethings on my end, then remembered, “Oh yeah, I killed a random process earlier.” I restarted the killed service and lo and behold everything started working again.

Lesson learned here kids: Don’t kill random processes and then wonder why stuff breaks!

Process Explorer is part of the Microsoft Sysinternals set of utilities.

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