title: How to kill mscorsvw.exe
body: <p>mscorsvw.exe (<strong>a.NET optimization that precompiles assemblies</strong>) is taking up a substantial percentage of my CPU - 50-100%.</p>
  
  <p>This article (and many others) say that </p>
  
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    <p>ngen.exe executequeueditems</p>
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  <p>From the command line should kill it.  For me, that command just hangs.  Is there some better way to kill this process?  </p>
  
  <p>I have not tried rebooting.  I've seen my CPU utilization spike up more than once in the last few days, and I suspect this has been my problem; I'd like to know how to kill it going forward.</p>