WoW staying open after closing

[Boyiee]

So this is new.

I typically have firefox and wow open, vent maybe itunes whatever. Lately, when I exit from wow and say, firefox comes to the top of the screen, wow stays in the taskbar in the backround. Even after several minutes. I have to manually go into processes and end it, why would this be?

[izembo]

wow is spyware, should just uninstall, solves the problem

[Cephius]

wow is spyware, should just uninstall, solves the problem

Posts like these don't help anyone.

Anyway, it could be a plugin or something that's not ending correctly and causing it to hang up. Try unloading your plugins then see if it still hangs when you exit the game.

[izembo]

i actually had this problem myself for awhile, and it just kinda went away on its own, didnt do anything <_<

[Correction]

I've seen hangs from the login screen -> attempted to quit. I doubt it's an add-on problem. Is DirectX/Windows up to date on that machine? WoW doesn't seem to play along well with anything below SP3 these days.

[Boyiee]

I'm on Vista 64 ultimate, and there is an update available, I'll try that tomorrow. Ty for the answers so far.

Don't think I have any new addons, so it shouldn't be addon related. It just randomly started happening last week.

[killerx]

Roll back a week or 2 and see if the problem is still there?

[Boyiee]

So, it's not hanging when its in the foreground... only in the background. I can live with it, maybe its just taking a while to close idk. I have such an insane build I really shouldn't have these problems, but I rather these simple/minor/trivial ones then major i suppose.

[Norellicus]

Vista is weird about how it handles task priority though, you can have a beastly system and it can still "hang" a process because it changed the priority of WoW when it called for the kill sequence to the associated resources, all in the name of making your foreground processes 'more efficient'.