Command line tool in Windows systems used to terminate tasks by process id (PID) or image name.
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Questions tagged [taskkill]
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I want assistance on Taskkill command
I have below command and saved it as a .bat file.
taskkill /F /IM explorer.exe
start /realtime chrome.exe
now I want to add some further command so that upon closing google chrome Windows Explorer process gets started automatically.
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TASKKILL command works properly outside Script, but not inside of it
Few days ago I started developing a Powershell script which monitors a service. Command:
taskkill /f /fi "USERNAME eq admin" /im tm1top.exe
When I ran taskkill to stop one process inside my script it didn’t work: that process remained in Running,…
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terminating application through python script
How to close (terminate) Windows applications using Python script? When I switch-on my PC, I find many applications like MSOSYNC.exe, ONENOTEM.exe etc. along with many others, running, which are not very useful. I want to close those? I tried…
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How can I place taskkill.exe into my System32 folder?
I just got a Windows XP computer, and I was wondering if its possible to copy the Taskkill command from my windows 10 computer to the other computer so that I can use it? When I tried just copy and pasting it said "taskkill is not a valid win…
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How can I kill the explorer.exe process?
I'm writing a script which is meant to kill explorer.exe. I searched a bit about it and the best answer I've seen uses the taskkill command. I tried it, but when I run it on my computer it says it worked but it doesn't actually kill it.
import os,…
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Windows 10 - Taskkill never kills a task
I have a application which is a keyboard on the screen, I need to kill it via taskkill but it is impossible to kill.
How do you kill it?
I tried all combinations but it won't just get killed?
user285594
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Batch file or Powershell to kill process
Using Win2019 SRV, I have a process (process_name) in the tasklist.
Each user starts a new process_name (the same process) and in task manager I could see the same process with different user into "user column".
Users are User1, User2, User3,…
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Taskkill a process with space in its image name
I'm trying to kill a window 7 32 bit application using taskkill command but I'm having an issue passing a space for the name of the process.
taskkill /F /IM ABC DEFG.exe
If someone could help me with this would be much appreciated. Thanks!
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How can one prevent a program from being opened with Python?
I want to try to prevent a program from being run with Python. For example, notepad.exe. My idea is the following, but will this work?
import os
i = 0
while i < 1:
os.system('taskkill /f /im notepad.exe')
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Calling CMD command through JAVA
I have a method called taskkill() written in java. I want to implement the cmd command taskkill in the selected field (as shown). I don't know how to apply this command in java. Please help.
public static Timer taskkill() {
TimerTask…
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