All of this is possible with the TaskKill command. First, let’s cover the basics. You can kill a process by the process ID (PID) or by image name (EXE filename).<\/p>\n
Open up an Administrative level Command Prompt and run tasklist to see all of the running processes:<\/p>\n
C:>tasklist<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Image Name PID Session Name Mem Usage<\/p>\n ========================= ======== ================ ============ In the example above you can see the image name and the PID for each process. If you want to kill the firefox process run:<\/p>\n C:>Taskkill \/IM firefox.exe \/F<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n or<\/p>\n C:>Taskkill \/PID 26356 \/F<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n The \/f<\/strong> flag is kills the process forcefully. Failure to use the \/F<\/strong> flag will result in nothing happening in some cases. One example is whenever I want to kill the explorer.exe process I have to use the \/F<\/strong> flag or else the process just does not terminate.<\/p>\n If you have multiple instances of an image open such as multiple firefox.exe processes, running the taskkill \/IM<\/strong> firefox.exe command will kill all instances. When you specify the PID only the specific instane of firefox will be terminated.<\/p>\n The real power of taskkill are the filtering options that allow you to use the following variables and operators.<\/p>\n Variables: STATUS Operators:<\/strong> “*” is the wildcard.<\/p>\n You can use the variables and operators with the \/FI filtering flag. For example, let’s say you want to end all processes that have a window title that starts with “Internet”:<\/p>\n C:>taskkill \/FI “WINDOWTITLE eq Internet*” \/F<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n How about killing all processes running under the Steve account<\/p>\n C:>taskkill \/FI “USERNAME eq Steve” \/F<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n It is also possible to kill a process running on a remote computer with taskkill. Just run the following to kill notepad.exe on a remote computer called SteveDesktop:<\/p>\n C:>taskkill \/S SteveDesktop \/U RemoteAccountName \/P RemoteAccountPassword \/IM notepad.exe \/F<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n To learn more about taskkill run it with the \/?<\/p>\n From: http:\/\/www.tweakvista.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" All of this is possible with the TaskKill command. First, let’s cover the basics. You can kill a process by the process ID (PID) or by image name (EXE filename). Open up an Administrative level Command Prompt and run tasklist … Continue reading
\nfirefox.exe 26356 Console 139,352 K
\nregedit.exe 24244 Console 9,768 K
\ncmd.exe 18664 Console 2,380 K
\nconhost.exe 2528 Console 7,852 K
\nnotepad.exe 17364 Console 7,892 K
\nnotepad.exe 24696 Console 22,028 K
\nnotepad.exe 25304 Console 5,852 K
\nexplorer.exe 2864 Console 72,232 K<\/p>\n
\nIMAGENAME
\nPID
\nSESSION
\nCPUTIME
\nMEMUSAGE
\nUSERNAME
\nMODULES
\nSERVICES
\nWINDOWTITLE<\/p>\n
\neq (equals)<\/em>
\n ne (not equal)<\/em>
\n gt (greater than)<\/em>
\n lt (less than)<\/em>
\n ge (greater than or equal)<\/em>
\n le (less than or equal)<\/em><\/p>\n