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[RESOLVED] A process that is being terminated stops responding in Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 or Small Business Server 2011

You may find that when you try to terminate a process on Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Small Business Server 2011 SBS 2011 that the termination process stops responding.  The main thread of the process becomes blocked and if you analyse the call stack of the process you will see that a thread is blocked in the ntdll!NtReleaseKeyedEvent() function.  This occurs because of a race condition whereby the main thread that is trying to terminate the process also tries to reactivate another thread when the thread released an SRW lock.

This issue can be resolved by installing a hotfix containing an updated Ntdll.dll driver.  You can find the hotfix download link in Microsoft KB 2582203 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2582203

Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 and SBS 2011 with Service Pack 1 – You may see a STOP: 0x0000007F error message when resuming from sleep/hibernate or initiate a data transfer over the network

If you are running Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 or SBS 2011 with Service Pack 1 then you may experience the following error:

STOP: 0x0000007F (parameter1, parameter2, parameter3, parameter4) UNEXPECTED_KERNEL_MODE_TRAP

This can occur in a number of scenarios such as initiating a data transfer over the network or resuming the computer/server from sleep/hibernate.  Ultimately the issue is related to the operating system not allocating enough stack space.  The issue can be resolved by applying the hotfix from the Microsoft Article KB 2519736 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2519736

Windows 7, SBS 2011 or Windows Server 2008 R2 RTM and SP1 – Stop error message 0x0000007E and/or Kernel Sockets Leak on a Multi Processor Machine

You may suffer from a BSOD Stop Error Message with STOP: 0x0000007E and/or experience a Kernel Sockets Leak if you are running an older version of Ancillary Function Driver for Winsock or afd.sys

To prevent these two issues you need to be running the latest version of Afd.sys which can be downloaded from http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2579274