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[Severs]

So I've noticed, as well as a couple of my friends, that sometimes when we attempt to close the game down, it does not fully close. Steam will continue to say we are playing, and if I open up the task manager the hl2.exe is still hanging around in the background. Obviously it isn't that big of a deal because once you end task from the task manager it does go away, but it is kind of annoying to close it down and then when I want to play again clicking on the game in steam and it going "app already running."

[Enzo.Matrix]

The is an engine bug that we cannot fix.  Sometimes the client will crash when closing and the hl2.exe will also close.  But this is a known issue that won't be going away.

[markpeterjameslegg]

To save you pressing CTRL+ALT & DEL and manually closing the process, you can create a batch file using Notepad on the desktop with the following line:-

taskkill /F /IM hl2.exe

Save the text file with the ".bat" extension.

If you want to change the icon, just place the bat file in your gesource folder, create a shortcut and drag it to the desktop. Now right click, select properties and under "shortcut" tab click on "Change Icon", select your "gesource/resources" folder and double click the GES icon, then apply followed by OK.

[killermonkey]

Nice workaround!

[Severs]

This will prove to be useful, thanks for the workaround.

[markpeterjameslegg]

Your all very welcome. Been using this method for some time now