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Deleting Files (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by cm0002@sh.itjust.works to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] sundray@lemmus.org 105 points 1 year ago (9 children)

"Time to see who's stopping me from deleting this file... svchost??? Goddamn it!"

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[–] baines@lemmy.cafe 49 points 1 year ago (6 children)

just kill it

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[–] youngalfred@lemmy.zip 56 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Instructions unclear, I shot my gaming rig with a 6 bore shotgun…. And then set it on fire.

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[–] notabot@piefed.social 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Instructions may have been unclear, but you got the gist of it.

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[–] Mac@mander.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

Hole-y and on fire:

"This program is preventing Windows from shutting down:"

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[–] WR5@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago

He's a little confused, but he's got the spirit.

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[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 point 1 year ago

I used to, all the time

This was in the XP days so I didn't know how to figure out which service it was, I was a kid. But some svchost process would manifest as a task to switch to in the alt + tab switcher and made the computer slow and weird. I just killed it. No idea if it was a bug or a virus.

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[–] purplemonkeymad@programming.dev 14 points 1 year ago

Probably the indexing service, it's always the indexing service.

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[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

I'm in this picture and I don't like it. I was trying to diagnose a prod server crashing this very Wednesday and seeing the lines of svchost.exe is so fucking maddening... I'm glad ProcessExplorer was there to give some useful fucking info, at least.

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