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taskkill — Terminate a process by its process ID or name. More information: <https://learn.microsoft.com/window

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Problem

How to use the taskkill command: Terminate a process by its process ID or name. More information: <https://learn.microsoft.com/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/taskkill>.

Solution

taskkill — Terminate a process by its process ID or name. More information: <https://learn.microsoft.com/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/taskkill>.

Terminate a process by its ID:

taskkill /pid {{process_id}}

Terminate a process by its name:

taskkill /im {{process_name}}

Forcefully terminate a specified process:

taskkill /pid {{process_id}} /f

Terminate a process and its child processes:

taskkill /im {{process_name}} /t

Terminate a process on a remote machine:

taskkill /pid {{process_id}} /s {{remote_name}}

Display information about the usage of the command:

taskkill /?

Code Snippets

Terminate a process by its ID

taskkill /pid {{process_id}}

Terminate a process by its name

taskkill /im {{process_name}}

Forcefully terminate a specified process

taskkill /pid {{process_id}} /f

Terminate a process and its child processes

taskkill /im {{process_name}} /t

Terminate a process on a remote machine

taskkill /pid {{process_id}} /s {{remote_name}}

Context

tldr-pages: windows/taskkill

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