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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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Executing a command when closing Batch file

I have a batch file playing a sound in the background while it runs, using the method at Batch file executing a sound silently however, when I exit the batch file, the music will continue to play. Id there any way to run a command while a batch file…
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Batch: Taskkill timeout without waiting for timer

I'm writing a batch script which runs a few programs. As each program finishes what it's doing it waits for either the user to close it out, moving on to the next, or being closed by taskkill after a timeout of so many seconds. If I consider the…
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PHP5.5 Exec and Taskkill

I want to write a little internal Interface for my windows server 2012 with PHP 5.5. Now i have a list of tasks via tasklist where i get a list of pids that should be killed. My Problem is that i can't kill any task. exec(Taskkill /F /PID xxx) is…
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Taskkill and timer in batch

I currently have this batch script: start udp%1.exe timeout /t %2 taskkill /f /im "udp%1.exe" This works great and kills the program after a selected amount of time, however if I was to manually close udp%1.exe and start another one with the same…
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TASKKILL command implementation using JAVA

I have two methods written in JAVA, the taskkill() and taskkill(String strProcessName), given below: public static Timer taskkill() { TimerTask timerTask = new TimerTask() { @Override public void run() { …
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Search for and kill PIDs, one at a time

I have the following command that works pretty well: FOR /F "tokens=5 delims= " %%P IN ('netstat -a -n -o ^| grep :7010') DO TaskKill.exe /PID %%P /F The issue is, if the same port is found multiple times with the same PID, my script returns errno…
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taskkill window with space and quotation on its name?

How do to kill a cmd window with space and quotation on its name? I want to kill a window that its name is: Remote /C comupterName "session1" taskkill /f /fi "WindowTiltle eq Remote /C comupterName "session1"" doesn't work, it don't find the…
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"start /b" seems to cause "taskkill" to fail in batch scripts

For reasons that have yet to be determined, the /b switch in start /b causes taskkill to fail to find the first instance: INFO: No tasks running with the specified criteria This is a simple example of the code in question (has /b and does not…
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taskkill Mysql from .ASPX -- Permission Problems?

Our mysql instance occaisionally locks up during backups. Currently we must VPN into the corporate network (to obtain work I.P.), remote desktop into the server, open the task manager, and manually kill the mysqld-nt.exe process. Instead of doing…
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how to taskkill an input output process

Quite new to batch script, please help me out. set Pathname="C:\S3Sync" cd %Pathname% S3Sync.exe - timeout /t 10 taskkill /im S3Sync.exe I want to run the following process and if it stops or goes into an infinite time period, kill the process…
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Python: find current directory of remote "cmd.exe" processes

I write a script that among other things erases certain directory using shutil.rmtree I have to ensure that no "cmd.exe" is opened in this directory (and blocking me from erasing that directory). I can do this by killing all "cmd.exe" on the remote…
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Batch File... Close openfiles

I searched for 2 days. Now I am here and hope to get help. I am trying to "kill (close)" a file automatically. For example: @echo off taskkill /IM Acrord32.exe Thats works fine. The only problem is, that it closes every PDF file. But I only want…
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Autohotkey script - taskkill.exe error on Windows shutdown

I am using lot of portable application locally on my laptop and if i leave some of them opened when i shutdown Windows it doesn't close them properly and some applications don't save their settings. I am trying to use taskkill option in a autohotkey…
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C# windows service to run taskkill.exe

I have C# service that uses FileSystemWatcher and invokes associated commands (e.g. batch files). One of the batch files needs to kill a running program, copy some files and start the program again. Taskkill is used to get rid of the program. The…
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Batch File with Powershell TASKKILL only the user processes

I'm trying t develop a batch file that closes all the user processes in Windows 8, by using Powershell. I use the code: Taskkill /f /fi "USERNAME eq Dave" But when i run the batch file, it does not work. I just want to close all apps in Windows 8,…
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