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Command line tool in Windows systems used to terminate tasks by process id (PID) or image name.

Useful links:

  1. TASKKILL on technet.
  2. TASKKILL on SS64 help pages.
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Gracefully stop console program started by windows TaskScheduler

I have written a simple console program that is scheduled and executed by Windows Task Scheduler. Sometimes this program take longer than expected so i have configured the TaskScheduler Settings to stop the task if it takes more than 1h to…
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Killing an Excel process using taskkill through VBA

I have a need to kill an Excel process running in background. I have done it successfully on a machine running 32-bit Office using the code shown below. This code did not execute on a machine running 64-bit Office, and threw an Automation error at…
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Webpage to to run programs

Hi all I'm brand new to PHP so go easy here. :) I am attempting to make a bare minimum webpage to run various things on my computer. For example, I have a button and am attempting to run the following:
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Which C++/C# functions are called when an application is killed in Windows 10?

As the title suggest: Which functions of an application are called when it's killed by Windows 10, either by End Task in Task Manager or Terminate it in Settings? Or there's no function called at all and all the threads are killed immediately? I'm…
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Batch File as Service - TaskKill not killing task

If I run my batch script as normal from cmd it seems to work fine. What I'm trying to do is setup my script as a service using nssm. That seems to work as expected except for Taskkill - this isn't killing the desired application for some…
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Powershell problem - i dont know how to make goto

i have an code and i want to do a goto but i dont know how to make it in Powershell :yea taskkill /im wordpad.exe /f (get-process | ? {$_.Description -eq "Notepad"}).kill() goto yea i tried to read how to make it in google but i dont understeand…
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I need my python program to end itself if errors are encountered

I made a python exe that runs in the background for database importing and exporting. The exe runs via a php script. Here's the general flow: User visits the exporting page and clicks the export button. PHP throws an ajax that runs the exporting…
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Batch script to kill process on Windows 10 startup

I'm trying to make a batch script to kill LGHub after it launches on startup (LGHub needs to load in order to start services that run my mouse's macros/binds, but I don't need the full program/window sitting open on my desktop after those services…
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Timeout a command in batch without unnecessary delay

I am essentially looking for this solution 'timeout a command in bash without unnecessary delay', but it must be for a script.bat file. Given a cmd.exe terminal. And we start "long-running" /path/to/long-running program. And we set a timeout /t…
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execution of the command wmic causing issue for taskkill argument of /PID?

In a Cygwin bash script file when run "taskkill /PID $pid" failed with this response: ".ROR: Invalid argument/option -" after the line execution of the command wmic. I had the following 6 lines in bash shell in a file namely…
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How to run a script with admin privileges to kill a process?

I'm trying to run a python script to kill a process, but I need admin rights. I tried using runas /profile /savecred /user:domain\user "taskkill /f /im myprocess.exe" but it didn't work. My user has admin rights on the system (windows). I know the…
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How to kill python using taskkill on windows without /F

The accepted answer to this question elaborates how the signal for a process exit can be determined on windows. But if we launch python in the command line using python And try to kill it using task manager or task kill like so: taskkill /FI…
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Python - Schedule to close a program

I run a program that needs to be closed by 10pm. I leave office at 9:30 PM. It would be wonderful if I had a script that closes this program automatically after 30 minutes. That would allow me to leave early and not have to wait to close it out…
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Getting a 500 Internal server error on my flask application, does not kill process running on a particular port when application is stopped

When I run the app for the first time, it is working fine but when I stop the app and try to run it again, then it gives error "Internal server error, server overloaded". It is due to the process running on that port does not get killed when the app…
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VB script code not killing process in windows 7

I have a task in which whenever an application is running, and when I run upgrade of that application then the application should be removed from processes else it will throw licenses error as some of the licenses are attached to that application…
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