A friend called me today and happened to mention his biggest gripe about Lotus Notes, that it hangs ever so often (ok that’s acceptable), but the clincher is that if you kill it through the task manager it will not allow you to restart and relogin until you reboot your PC. Now, that is a serious problem and a hit to productivity. But the omniscient angel I am, I had the solution ready (because till a couple of years ago, I was also haunted by this very issue every day). I told him about a small 20 kb application, simply but aptly named “KillNotes.exe”. When run, this utlitiy will properly terminate the process(es) that loaded nnotes.dll and turn you into a happy camper when you watch Lotus notes restart without giving you even an angry stare. I published this here in the hope that it helps someone else out there as well.
/couchNerd /serialOutrager /puts2In42 /makesPigsFly
I like the icon fo this utility
Looks like its trying to scare the notes application saying “i will kill you”
Yeah this app was used a lot in our “ex-office” as well.
But I never understood the need for it
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all you gotta do is kill all processes that lnotes.exe starts.
hmm, killing the processes manually always gave me an error when notes was restarted, plus i guess it saved some hassles of opening up task manager, finding the processes and killing them
yeah it has a couple of daemons that need to be killed too ..so not all the names are of the type *notes.exe
i used to delete all the ones starting with ‘n’ except the most obv ones… never failed me
I have been working as a Lotus Notes Administrator for the last 10 years and have found this a pathetic annoyance all along. How come everybody else manages to close their software properly even in worst case crashes and IBM can’t?
And worst of all: these issues NEVER get fixed. Over the years, I have turned more and more to OpenSource, because in that field, things get fixed, always!
Only on proprietary software you can wait forever and it still does not mend. I am amazed and frustrated that companies don’t seem to care about what users want. And of course, due to the closed nature, no fork or fix can be submitted, even when a community member is more competent that the dim light inside the company that messed this up in the first place.
Markus
Very well said, Markus..
Thank you! I was kind of fed up working with the hung windows in the way…
Thank you very much! This is an essential application to have when you use Lotus Notes, for sure!!
Thank You. Thank you. Thank You.
I have been restarting my !@#$% computer for years and finally had enough.
You cannot just kill it through task manager, and I tried killing everything.
Thank You.
Did I already say that. Oh no, Thank You.
Man I hate Notes.
Thank You! This is great.
Amazing find. Thanks a lot.
Was about a close a zillion files open on desktop inorder to restart my machine. But a timely google search saved me the effort.
Thanks a ton.
Thank you.
Or, even easier, you can manually end the process ntaskldr.exe from the tab Processes in Windows Task Manager, after Lotus has crashed.
You are wellcome!
The link you provided no longer hosts the download – can you send directly to my email?
Thanks Shantanu. That helped.
The app can be downloaded from
http://www.virtualobjectives.com.au/notesdomino/killnotes.htm
Or you could always use the IBM tool to do it…
Program Files\IBM\Lotus\Notes
nsd -kill
It works for me on 8.5.2.
Regards
Steve