Kill Lotus Notes And Restart Without Rebooting
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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.
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This post has 12 comments
October 24th, 2008
I like the icon fo this utility
Looks like its trying to scare the notes application saying “i will kill you”
October 27th, 2008
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.
October 27th, 2008
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
October 28th, 2008
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
November 4th, 2008
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
November 4th, 2008
Very well said, Markus..
February 11th, 2009
Thank you! I was kind of fed up working with the hung windows in the way…
March 12th, 2009
Thank you very much! This is an essential application to have when you use Lotus Notes, for sure!!
July 1st, 2009
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.
December 3rd, 2009
Thank You! This is great.
June 29th, 2010
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.
July 7th, 2010
Thank you.