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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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How to kill a process in Java process.destroy()

I tired using process.destroy(); method to kill a process. After some research I learned that it won't work sometimes, so I tried killing the task using "Taskkiller". Using this: Java tool/method to force-kill a child process I'm running a cmd…
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Is there a difference between taskkill /f and C# Process.Kill?

A user is seeing different behaviour between my C# program that uses System.Diagnostics.Process.Kill and the Windows 7 command-line program "taskkill /f". Possibly the program is dying more cleanly with taskkill Does "taskkill /f" attempt to issue…
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Kill a calculation programme after user defined time in R

Say my executable is c:\my irectory\myfile.exe and my R script calls on this executeable with system(myfile.exe) The R script gives parameters to the executable programme which uses them to do numerical calculations. From the ouput of the…
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Kill a process tree from task scheduled windows batch file

I have created a Windows Task that runs on Admin account with highest privileges that runs a batch file every minute. This batch file will execute a PHP script to retrieve a webpage , after which it checks if no page or wrong content is returned. If…
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How to keep batch file running whilst using TASKKILL /f /t /im explorer.exe?

In short, I need to start 1.bat, that can CALL or START 2.bat to execute TASKKILL /im explorer.exe /f /t but keeps "1.bat" running (or reopens it) once "2.bat" is finished. The difficulty is, I need to keep the /t switch in TASKKILL to make it…
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syntax for testing TASKKILL's errorlevel

What is the correct syntax for testing the errorlevel of TASKKILL in the context of the batch file shown below? :Launch start "CloseMe" "C:\Program Files\internet explorer\iexplore.exe" "file://C:\ProgramData\Schneider Electric\Citect SCADA…
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How to kill windows processes whose resource consumption doesn't change using python?

I have a python script that tests if any firefox processes are running on my windows machine and then kills them: import os, subprocess running_processes = subprocess.check_output('tasklist', shell = True) if "firefox.exe" in running_processes: …
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Jenkins unable to kill process using taskkill windowtitle

While running a windows batch command from Jenkins Im unable to kill a process using taskkill windowtitle. I just get the following error: INFO: No tasks running with the specified criteria. If I write the same script on my own on my computer in…
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List of Android task killers

I am trying to do a list of Android task killers that are installed by default on the operating system. The problem is that Android is modified by the phone's manufacturer and it is hard to keep up with what everyone is doing. So far I have found…
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vbs taskkill by name

I'am trying to find how to close a process using it's title. I found the command: taskkill /fi "WINDOWTITLE eq the_title_of_the_windows" and it works great. When I try: oShell.Run "taskkill /fi "WINDOWTITLE eq the_title_of_the_windows"", , True I…
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kill only once instance of chrome from command line

I have a batch file that runs to open a webpage in Chrome that runs a specific function. start http://www.example.com/cgi/myprogram.exe This process runs quickly, then I want to automatically close the browser window. I don't want to use taskkill…
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What is the equivalent code of the CTRL+C task killing on windows?

On Windows 7, I have a Java Application, which can start other JAR-s (which are running in background). In this Application, I have a button, which shoul represent the CTRL+C command for every other started (and still running) JAR-s. I have found…
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Can't kill a running subprocess using Python on Windows

I have a Python script that runs all day long checking time every 60 seconds so it can start/end tasks (other python scripts) at specific periods of the day. This script is running almost all ok. Tasks are starting at the right time and being open…
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Killing a process with taskkill /F returning code 0

I need to kill a windows process (java.exe). I'm currently using: taskkill.exe /F /IM java.exe I need to use the /F option since is a critical process,but in this way I get a return code 1 instead I need a return code 0 (returned when I don't use…
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How to end explorer.exe in Windows 8.1 (It restarts each time I do so)

So I'm writing an app that needs to end explorer.exe before it installs. However, when using the following code Windows automatically restarts the process: Dim proc() = System.Diagnostics.Process.GetProcessesByName("explorer.exe") For Each item as…
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