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XP: Kill A Windows Process From The Command Line With Taskkill

Taskkill is a command line tool in Windows that allows users to terminate processes running on the system. It can kill processes by process name, process ID, or using filters to match multiple processes based on attributes like username, status, or memory usage. Filters support operators like equals and greater than to specify process properties. Taskkill provides options to gracefully terminate or forcibly kill processes without confirmation.

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XP: Kill A Windows Process From The Command Line With Taskkill

Taskkill is a command line tool in Windows that allows users to terminate processes running on the system. It can kill processes by process name, process ID, or using filters to match multiple processes based on attributes like username, status, or memory usage. Filters support operators like equals and greater than to specify process properties. Taskkill provides options to gracefully terminate or forcibly kill processes without confirmation.

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XP: kill a Windows process from the command line with taskkill

The ability to perform tasks from a systems command line allows those tasks to be used in batch
files. This recipe describes several uses of taskkill to terminate Windows processes.
If you know the name of a process to kill, for example notepad.exe, use the following command
from a command prompt to end it:
taskkill /IM notepad.exe
This will cause the program to terminate gracefully, asking for confirmation if there are unsaved
changes. To forcefully kill the same process, add the /F option to the command line. Be careful
with the /F option as it will terminate all matching processes without confirmation.
To kill a single instance of a process, specify its process id (PID). For example, if the desired
process has a PID of 827, use the following command to kill it:
taskkill /PID 827
Using filters, a variety of different patterns can be used to specify the processes to kill. For
example, the following filter syntax will forcefully kill all processes owned by the user Quinn:
taskkill /F /FI "USERNAME eq Quinn"
The following table shows the available filters and their use.
Filter Name Valid Operators Valid Value(s)
STATUS eq ne RUNNING | NOT RESPONDING
IMAGENAME eq ne Image name
PID eq ne gt lt ge le PID value
SESSION eq ne gt lt ge le Session number.
CPUTIME eq ne gt lt ge le CPU time in the format of hh:mm:ss.
MEMUSAGE eq ne gt lt ge le Memory usage in KB
USERNAME eq ne User name in [domain\]user format
MODULES eq ne DLL name
SERVICES eq ne Service name
WINDOWTITLE eq ne Window title
eq: equals. ne: not equal. gt: greater than. lt: less than.
gt: greater than or equal. le: less than or equal.
Some Windows XP systems do not recognize taskkill. In such cases, try with tskill.
Locate a programs PID with C:\>netstat -ano | findstr 3306
TCP 192.168.7.43:3306 66.147.242.154:44059 ESTABLISHED 3540
And then kill it with C:\>taskkill /PID 3540
SUCCESS: The process with PID 3540 has been terminated.

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