Taskkill with the Cmd.exe, how to use correct and useful with examples!
The taskkill can be used to end one or more processes in any windows OS. With TASKKILL, processes can be killed by the process id or image name.
There are also good programs such as the freeware tool ProcessKO! But why yet another program, if it also goes without. For this reason, here a couple of useful EXAMPLES for taskkill and tasklist for new Windows 11 and 10 and Server 2016, and also for old OS Windows 8.1 and 7!
1.) Find the Procesid via TASKLIST in command prompt!
For this purpose, we use the command Tasklist to find out the corresponding Prozesid (PID).
Here I have me decided for the kill of the CollorConsoe.exe with the PID 1024 (here orange marked).
PS: You can here download the ColorConsole.exe (colored cmd.exe): ... ColorConsole.exe
C:\WINDOWS>tasklist
Image Name PID Session Name Session# Mem Usage
========================= ====== ================ ======== ============
System Idle Process 0 Console 0 16 K
System 4 Console 0 212 K
smss.exe 320 Console 0 400 K
csrss.exe 380 Console 0 1,964 K
winlogon.exe 404 Console 0 16,768 K
services.exe 448 Console 0 3,260 K
lsass.exe 460 Console 0 1,576 K
svchost.exe 612 Console 0 4,920 K
svchost.exe 764 Console 0 4,116 K
svchost.exe 828 Console 0 22,280 K
svchost.exe 920 Console 0 3,400 K
svchost.exe 1000 Console 0 3,876 K
spoolsv.exe 1112 Console 0 4,380 K
explorer.exe 1344 Console 0 18,548 K
vmusrvc.exe 1440 Console 0 3,072 K
svchost.exe 1620 Console 0 3,292 K
vmsrvc.exe 1652 Console 0 2,268 K
vpcmap.exe 1848 Console 0 1,044 K
alg.exe 900 Console 0 3,440 K
wscntfy.exe 1268 Console 0 2,036 K
HelpCtr.exe 1240 Console 0 4,336 K
HelpSvc.exe 504 Console 0 18,800 K
wpabaln.exe 996 Console 0 2,956 K
firefox.exe 1800 Console 0 4,144 K
chrome.exe 1812 Console 0 592 K
ctfmon.exe 1684 Console 0 3,328 K
ColorConsole.exe 1024 Console 0 3,496 K
cmd.exe 640 Console 0 2,524 K
cmd.exe 580 Console 0 2,628 K
tasklist.exe 1680 Console 0 4,416 K
wmiprvse.exe 532 Console 0 5,652 K
C:\WINDOWS>
2.) Kill of the Procesid or the program via ProcessID PID!
After we found the process ID, it is easy to stop (kill) this program.
Info: /F: forces the process to finish. /IM the Image name (program name)
In this case we close all NOTEPAD.EXE instances.
C:\Windows-7>System32>taskkill /IM notepad.exe /F
SUCCESS: The process "notepad.exe" with PID 1580 has been terminated.
SUCCESS: The process "notepad.exe" with PID 732 has been terminated.
5.) Creating a desktop shortcut for a fast kill of hanging programs!
You can create each of the commands as desktop shortcut on the desktop. Idleness is for Internet Explorer, because this still love hangs. It uses the command taskkill / IN the iexplorer.exe / F and simply creates a desktop shortcut.
By right clicking on the free space on the windows desktop, then click on the "New", "shortcut" in the desktop context menu, type only the command taskkill /IM iexplore.exe /F and "Kill IE" via desktop shortcut.
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop>taskkill /?
TASKKILL [/S system [/U username [/P [password]]]]
{ [/FI filter] [/PID processid | /IM imagename] } [/F] [/T]
Description:
This command line tool can be used to end one or more processes.
Processes can be killed by the process id or image name.
Parameter List:
/S system
Specifies the remote system to connect to.
/U [domain\]user
Specifies the user context under which
the command should execute.
/P [password]
Specifies the password for the given
user context. Prompts for input if omitted.
/F
Specifies to forcefully terminate
process(es).
/FI filter
Displays a set of tasks that match a
given criteria specified by the filter.
/PID process id
Specifies the PID of the process that
has to be terminated.
/IM image name
Specifies the image name of the process
that has to be terminated. Wildcard '*'
can be used to specify all image names.
/T
Tree kill: terminates the specified process
and any child processes which were started by it.
/? Displays this help/usage.
Filters:
Filter Name Valid Operators Valid Value(s)
----------- --------------- --------------
STATUS eq, ne RUNNING | NOT RESPONDING
IMAGENAME eq, ne Image name
PID eq, ne, gt, lt, ge, le PID value
SESSION eq, ne, gt, lt, ge, le Session number.
CPUTIME eq, ne, gt, lt, ge, le CPU time in the format
of hh:mm:ss.
hh - hours,
mm - minutes, ss - seconds
MEMUSAGE eq, ne, gt, lt, ge, le Memory usage in KB
USERNAME eq, ne User name in [domain\]user
format
MODULES eq, ne DLL name
SERVICES eq, ne Service name
WINDOWTITLE eq, ne Window title
NOTE: Wildcard '*' for the /IM switch is accepted only with filters.
NOTE: Termination of remote processes will always be done forcefully
irrespective of whether /F option is specified or not.
Examples:
TASKKILL /S system /F /IM notepad.exe /T
TASKKILL /PID 1230 /PID 1241 /PID 1253 /T
TASKKILL /F /IM notepad.exe /IM mspaint.exe
TASKKILL /F /FI "PID ge 1000" /FI "WINDOWTITLE ne untitle*"
TASKKILL /F /FI "USERNAME eq NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM" /IM notepad.exe
TASKKILL /S system /U domain\username /FI "USERNAME ne NT*" /IM *
TASKKILL /S system /U username /P password /FI "IMAGENAME eq note*"
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop>
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