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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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Can you set a keyboard shortcut for a Windows CMD command?

I'm running Windows 8.1 Pro and would like to know if it's possible to have a keyboard shortcut to run taskkill /F /FI "STATUS eq NOT RESPONDING" using CTRL + ALT + X SIDE NOTE: I have currently have a work-around where I have a batch file…
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Cannot kill a process using the window title

I have two batch file one is always running (listerner.bat) but it is visible,the other one (mystop.bat)is to kill or stop my listener.bat and this two batch file are resides in this path C:\mydemo\mybatchfiles\,I am using windows 7 here is the code…
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Close all firefox tabs with BATCH

I try to close all firefox if there are more than one. I want to do loop that check the firefox process and close and check again until there is no any firefox process. This is my code: :loop taskkill /im "firefox.exe" tasklist /fi "imagename eq…
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Using Taskkill in command prompt (Batch)

i have 4 excel files (city.xls, rule.xls,adv.xls and maping.xls), where all of excel files being opened. how to force close only one file (Ex: maping.xls) with taskkill in batch/CMD programing?
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taskkill from PHP exec

I have just tried to execute this: function kill_hr(){ exec("taskkill /IM uper.exe", $output = array(), $return); print_r($output); echo "
".$return; } However, the output is this and its not very useful: Array ( ) 1 When the…
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Gracefully kill a java (jetty/solr) process started from a windows batch file with "start /b"

I'm starting a Java background process (Solr) from a batch file with start /b java -jar ... The problem is that start /b will shield the process from SIGINT signals, see help start. This means that taskkill /pid ... won't work and taskkill /f /pid…
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End javaw.exe process softly with taskkill

I encountered a problem closing my javaw.exe process. I like to do it in a soft way, so taskkill /F won't help. Trying to close the javaw by taskkill /PID will end up in an "SUCESS" message, but the process still keeps running. I'm using Windows XP…
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Windows Server 2019, unable to terminate process: access denied

I mistakenly opened dozens of chrome.exe and chromedriver.exe processes and need to terminate them. I run: Taskkill /IM chrome.exe /F Taskkill /IM chromedriver.exe /F and killed few. Most of them return: unable to terminate process: access denied…
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Firefox refuses to start after being "killed" by PID

I've programmatically killed Firefox Browser using the PID via taskkill: Runtime.getRuntime().exec("taskkill /F /T /PID " + pid); Now when I try opening Firefox again, I'm being show the message: Firefox closed unexpectedly while starting. This…
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How can I kill a specific cmd.exe process running on the background on the windows?

I am implementing some web service written in php which executes a batch file. The batch code should be something like below, for /f "usebackq tokens=2 delims=," %%i in (`tasklist /v /fo csv ^| findstr "cmd.exe" ^| findstr "THISFILE" ^| findstr /v…
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How to kill the process after particular timeout in python?

I am having a python function that has loop which may fall into infinte loop. I want to kill the function and print error if it exceeds the time limit let's say 10 sec. For eg. this is the function that contains infinite loop def myfunc(data): …
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How to close a process (file) if it was opened by an external program, using Python?

I am writing to a file from python, if the file is open in some process, python throws error. To make it clear, I am writing to a excel file, I want it closed if already open. This is below code I use to write to file - writer =…
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My application task can't be killed by cmd

My C# and WPF application task can't be deleted by Task Manager or by console. It's a very big application but there's nothing new that can make the task 'bulletproof' I tried: wmic process where name="MyApp.exe" call terminate But it says: return…
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how to close file explorer in Windows using python

I'm very new to python and I am trying to write a short script that simply opens file explorer then closes it again, I can get it to open fine using the following.. import os import subprocess os.startfile("Y:\\") I tried adding the following to…
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How can I create an input prompt for batch file using taskkill

UPDATE: Ok below is the current code I wrote up but it errors out saying ERROR: The RPC server is unavailable If I manually just type in taskkill /s cn /im csmmviewer.exe within cmd it works, what I'm I missing here? @echo off :start set /p…
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