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Questions tagged [taskkill]

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 terminate a command line application on Windows

I'm creating a command-line application, which spawns a process (command defined by a user, usually an HTTP server) and when the application's job is done, I want to let the process know it should terminate. In UNIX, I can do that by sending SIGTERM…
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Trouble running TASKKILL from GitBash

I'm trying to create a function in my .bashrc to run in gitbash. The command I'm trying to run is: cmd '/C TASKKILL /fi "WINDOWTITLE eq Windows Task Manager"' I'll be changing the "Windows Task Manager" bit, but just to show what I'm trying. The…
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Pass PIDs from tasklist and kill processes with tasklist

I am trying to get windows processes matching some certain criteria, e.g. they are like "123456.exe" and trying to kill them with tasklist. I am trying to do it like that: FOR /F "usebackq tokens=2 skip=2" %i IN (`tasklist |findstr /r "[0-9].exe")…
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Caused by: java.net.BindException: Address already in use: bind

I am trying to run a spring boot application by clicking on Run as -> Spring Boot App. I am getting the error as : Caused by: java.net.BindException: Address already in use: bind When I use netstat command, I see the below without process…
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How to Open and Close Internet Explorer from batch file?

I Have a batch file which has to launch Internet explorer and open www.google.com. When the whole page loads finishing it should kill the IE process i.e. close all instances of IE in that system. My batch file has following two lines. iexplore.exe…
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Port 8000, PID 4, not able to kill, taskill /f /pid 4, Access Denied

I am not able to kill process bound to 8000 port, due to which I am not able to start HTTP server. This is in reference to question Start HTTP/HTTPS server, python -m SimpleHTTPServer C:\>taskkill /f /pid 4 ERROR: The process with PID 4 could not…
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Batch file that closes all programs except certain ones

I'm trying to write a batch file (or powershell script) that closes all programs with active windows, except certain programs. I also don't want just any program Windows is running to be closed, just programs I've opened. I also can't program a list…
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How to stop XAMPP's MySQL Service after updating MariaDB

I've updated my MariaDB to version 10.3.14 using this steps (link) It has been successfully installed, but when I tried to stop the MySQL Service from XAMPP Control Panel, it won't stop. The status always shows like this: [mysql] Attempting to…
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Wildcard in taskkill windowtitle

When I want to close the following two (fictional...) applications using taskkill... ...I would use taskkill /FI "WINDOWTITLE eq Hello*". But how about these two: taskkill /FI "WINDOWTITLE eq * wine" gives me FEHLER: Der Suchfilter wurde nicht…
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windows batch kill a process

TCP 0.0.0.0:8080 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING 3808 How to kill this process with pid? my command: for /f "delims=, tokens=5" %%a in ('netstat -ano | findstr 0.0.0.0:8080') do ( taskkill /f /pid %%a )
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how do I kill all cmd.exe except the one currently running from batch?

The past few days I have been working on a script that I thought would be rather easy but it seems not, and I do understand why. My problem is how to get around it. The batch script I need explained: I have a script that runs in cmd.exe that does a…
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How can I end a process with admin privileges using a batch file

I have written a batch file which starts OpenVPN. If the client is found, I check the connectivity by running PING. If the server is not found, then this means that although OpenVPN is running, the connection has not been established. At this point…
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Stop a batch file using another batch file?

I have a batch file which starts a new batch file on a new cmd prompt using the following command: C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /c "start mybatch.bat" The mybatch.bat process keeps on running until someone stops it. When we close this batch file…
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Gracefully terminate a Boost Asio based Windows console application

I am working on a boost.asio based HTTP server. It is supposed to be stopped externally. We use asio signal handling, and it works well for ctrl-c, but does not handle WM_CLOSE, so there is no straightforward way to gracefully close the application…
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Stopping windows service with taskkill

I need help to kill a windows service using C#, now to kill the service use the following option: From the cmd: sc queryex ServiceName After discovering the PID of the service taskkill /pid 1234(exemple) /f
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