How to list running processes and kill them via the command line

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Tip/Trick: Command-line Tasklist/Taskkill Utilities

ScottGu's Blog — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 22:28:40 GMT

Problem You want a quick way to kill a process on your system, or kill and restart an ASP.NET or IIS

re: How to list running processes and kill them via the command line

James Saull — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 11:45:13 GMT

If this floats your boat, then you should be spending some time with the new Windows Power Shell (FKA Monad). If that does not satisfy your ps -ef | grep... needs then you need to just install a KSH on Vista ;o)

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James O'Neill's blog — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 00:41:53 GMT

When I made my "Vista Cool wall" post, I said there were some new command line tools. I came across...

re: How to list running processes and kill them via the command line

Arthur — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 13:42:42 GMT

Hiya,
Taskkill is also avalable under XP ...

Sometimes the PID is not displayed so My personal favourite is
taskkill /f /im "process/service_name"
taskkill /f /im explorer.exe

The same command line can also be used to kill multiple processes
taskkill /f /im iexplorer.exe /im calc.exe

Does this make sense ?

A

re: How to list running processes and kill them via the command line

Steve Lamb — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 15:44:38 GMT

Arthur> Thanks for your suggestions. I noticed yesterday that it's available on XP and most likely 2003 too though I haven't tried that.