Cannot terminate proces: access is denied

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Published on 2012-09-20T11:19:18Z Indexed on 2012/10/20 17:04 UTC
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Skype and Spotify remain active after I close them. When I try to close them via Task Manager > Details > End Task, I get the following error: The operation could not be completed. Access is denied. So I have to reboot to get rid of these programs or to log in to Skype again.

Also, running a CMD as administrator and executing taskkill /f /im skype.exe results in an Access is denied error.

What is going on?

(this is Windows 8 RTM x64)

update

I have to kill skype.exe because it crashed and when I restart skype, I get the following error:

Could not open Skype, you are already signed in on this computer

It says: Could not open Skype, you are already signed in on this computer.

update 2 The process is owned by my own username.

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