The Lotus Crypt : Plink

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Notes 'power users' and programmers like myself often make Notes dance in curious ways to do curious things and this often leads to "Notes MIA". And sometimes, well it just hangs! One thing peculiar to Notes is that it consists of a bunch of coordinated processes rather than a single process like most applications. When one of these fellas becomes the walking dead, it's not surprising that the whole show retreats into "not responding" territory. Solidarity!

I frequently have to kill notes and reload. One way of doing this previous to Notes 8 was to kill nnotes.exe and child processes, (right click on nnotes.exe in Task Manager and select Kill Process Tree). Alas, in Notes 8 it appears we're dealing with not only the Lotus Notes family of executables, but we have a whole clan of other processes related to the Eclipse framework. What a nightmare! Well not really because our Lotus friends have it all monitored by the secretive and somewhat ominous NSD.EXE.

I call him Doctor Death. Tell NSD to -KILL and the whole shannanigan is brought to heel. I have a batch file on my windows desktop called KILLNOTES.BAT:

UPDATE: In Notes Client 8.02 it seems not even NSD will properely terminate dead processes requiring a computer restart. But there is a work around. After running NSD -kill (as above), instead of launching Notes via the Notes Client, Load the Notes Administrator. Then launch the Notes Client via the sidebar of the Notes Administrator.