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Kill utility is not able to destroyu child process of killed process on windows operating system. This causes problems IDE starts external processes like tomcat and then is hard killed, because tomcat is still running and directories with it's jar cannot be deleted. This is not going to be trivial, since Microsoft does not offer any API to see parental relations between processes for NT4 and if does for other OSes, then it is different for each OS (e.g. Win98 is differnet than W2K, but I don't know anything about WinXP)
solution is on my desk will be integrated soon