Everyone knows how to kill a procedure inwards Windows using Task Manager. However, when you’re on a Terminal Server Environment alongside xx other users too you lot demand to kill all matching processes on Windows from Command prompt it is exactly non possible because in that place mightiness last 100 processes running. But hey, if you lot enquire me, I would only forcefulness disconnect all users using Task Manager but too thence I mightiness croak into trouble! :grin: Anywho, you lot tin utilization tasklist to listing all Windows processes too taskkill to kill all matching processes on Windows from ascendence prompt, similar to kill or kill -9 on Linux. The best purpose (knowing Windows too all, you lot tin genuinely search too jibe filters spell doing it; no … it doesn’t bring grep but similarish!)
All of this is possible alongside the TaskKill command. First, let’s comprehend the basics. You tin kill a procedure yesteryear the procedure ID (PID) or yesteryear icon cite (EXE filename).
Open upwardly an Administrative degree Command Prompt too run tasklist to run into all of the running processes:
C:\WINDOWS\system32>tasklist
Image Name PID Session Name Session# Mem Usage
========================= ======== ================ =========== ============
System Idle Process 0 Services 0 eight K
System iv Services 0 9,720 K
Registry 120 Services 0 9,668 K
smss.exe 444 Services 0 484 K
csrss.exe 628 Services 0 2,004 K
wininit.exe 732 Services 0 3,256 K
services.exe 804 Services 0 7,584 K
lsass.exe 824 Services 0 12,408 K
svchost.exe 996 Services 0 344 K
svchost.exe 96 Services 0 19,960 K
fontdrvhost.exe 364 Services 0 768 K
svchost.exe 928 Services 0 10,700 K
svchost.exe 1040 Services 0 5,244 K
svchost.exe 1296 Services 0 2,300 K
svchost.exe 1304 Services 0 5,376 K
In the illustration inwards a higher house you lot tin run into the icon cite too the PID for each process. If you lot desire to kill the firefox procedure run:
C:\>Taskkill /IM firefox.exe /F
or
C:\>Taskkill /PID 26356 /F
The /F flag is kills the procedure forcefully. Failure to utilization the /F flag volition termination inwards null happening inwards roughly cases. One illustration is whenever I desire to kill the explorer.exe procedure I bring to utilization the /F flag or else the procedure exactly does non terminate.
If you lot bring multiple instances of an icon opened upwardly such equally multiple firefox.exe processes, running the taskkill /IM firefox.exe ascendence volition kill all instances. When you lot specify the PID exclusively the specific instance of firefox volition last terminated.
The existent ability of taskkill are the filtering options that allow you lot to utilization the next variables too operators.
Variables:
STATUS
IMAGENAME
PID
SESSION
CPUTIME
MEMUSAGE
USERNAME
MODULES
SERVICES
WINDOWTITLE
Operators:
eq (equals)
ne (not equal)
gt (greater than)
lt (less than)
ge (greater than or equal)
le (less than or equal)
"*" is the wildcard.
You tin utilization the variables too operators alongside the /FI filtering flag. For example, let’s say you lot desire to goal all processes that bring a window championship that starts alongside “Internet”:
C:\>taskkill /FI "WINDOWTITLE eq Internet*" /F
How most killing all processes running nether the Steve account:
C:\>taskkill /FI “USERNAME eq Steve” /F
It is besides possible to kill a procedure running on a remote reckoner alongside taskkill. Just run the next to kill notepad.exe on a remote reckoner called SteveDesktop:
C:\>taskkill /S SteveDesktop /U RemoteAccountName /P RemoteAccountPassword /IM notepad.exe /F
To larn to a greater extent than most taskkill run it alongside the /? ascendence exactly similar whatever other Windows command.
