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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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Show ProcessList of a Client, but ONLY 'Applications' Tab Tasks

I made a program that scans the subnet of my company and let me do lot of things on single client or on all clients together (like shutdown all). i leave a screenshot that show how my program works. For some needs im trying to add a function with…
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Handle "abandon unsaved data and shut down" from commandline when killing a process

I just got a windows command prompt to freeze and I could not close it from another terminal with taskkill /IM cmd.exe /T /F I had to open task manager and and when trying to end the task got a pop up window where I add to check an "abandon unsaved…
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Opening and closing excel using batch without losing data

I am trying to write a batch file that will open two Excel documents and close them without losing data. I need this because the first document is automatically downloaded from the Internet every day and contains raw data. The second document uses…
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Using Powershell Taskkill what is the syntax for filtering mulitple processes you do not want to be killed?

I am trying to kill all processes on a terminal server for a specific user, but I want to have 2 or more processes not killed. I am unsure on how to filter multiple Imagenames that are not equal? I have previously tried using -and or declaring /FI…
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How to kill an unkillable task?

I am using Scilab to access a software called LTSpice (XVIIx64.exe) and whenever I use wmic/taskkill/powershell.exe "Get-Process XVIIx64 | Stop-Process". or whatever killing commands, it doesn't actually kill the process (it does close the program,…
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How can I close a sub-process with a particular title or window name ( Excel with multiple open files )?

I am writing a script where I am unable to close one of the excel files open in Windows. There are many open files in Microsoft Excel but I have not opened them as f.open() in python. Before the script completes it has to write to same excel file…
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How to bypass admin password using python 3.x?

I am trying to kill a task but in order to do it I need admin privileges. And so far I was not able to find a functional code that would bypass the need for admin. And when I found one than it was filled with errors or was made for python 2.
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Want to kill my tab but process.kill() doesn't work

no error but still cannot kill the process import time import subprocess total_breaks = 3 break_count = 0 print("This program started on " + time.ctime()) while(break_count < total_breaks): time.sleep(5) process =…
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Batch - If an Audio File is Not Playing is it Considered a Task?

I have been working on a project idea today, and I encountered this issue while attempting to kill an audio task. Here's my code (Problem is after the code block): :two ECHO Reading... start C:\Users\Gigabyte\Documents\Audacity\FDD.wav timeout /t…
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Find out process ID of nunit of particular instance

I have three batch files, each opening one instance of NUnit. I want to kill a particular instance of NUnit when the tests are completed. I am able to fetch the three process ID's for three NUnit instances. But is there a way to find out which…
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How to make a program close it's currently running instance upon startup?

I have a command line program which I'd like to keep running until I open it again, so basically a program which first checks if there's currently any already running instance of itself and kill it. I tried os.system('TASKKILL /F /IM program.exe')…
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Taskkill: Do I need to specify \t parameter multiple times?

I have 2 unwanted processes running: foo.exe and bar.exe, and both have child processes started by them. I want to use taskkill to terminate all these processes (foo.exe, bar.exe and all child ones). Do I need to use \t parameter only once or do I…
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Killing a java process safely on windows

i want to kill a java process through a batch file, but safely. The problem is, when i use taskkill /IM java.exe it wont kill the process because java doesn't allow it. When i use taskkill /F /IM java.exe it works, but there is the risk that files…
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Taskkill batch file to close not responding apps closes an app that is working and responding

Sorry for the awfully worded title, I have a batch file that runs the command: "taskkill.exe /F /FI "status eq NOT RESPONDING" I then attached a shortcut of the file to my task bar so that whenever a program doesn't respond I have quick access to…
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Killing Java process gracefully using WMIC

I have to kill a Java process gracefully from windows. The requirement is that there is a Java main class XYZ.java which has a shutdown hook added named ABC.java containing some piece of code.I have to run code present in ABC.java when XYZ.java…
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