Comments on: XP: kill a Windows process from the command line with taskkill

By: andriistarikov

andriistarikov — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:37:01 +0000

Thank you, qmchenry!
Works as expected.

By: saddoadshdnboaw

saddoadshdnboaw — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 03:57:26 +0000

to kill notepad we have to but .exe so what if want to kill media player or
an client server on some pc's in network ?!!???!

By: Anil

Anil — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 04:04:05 +0000

thanks …quite helpful information..

By: e. edwards

e. edwards — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 03:04:33 +0000

Small typo right above the 'Add New Comment' box:

Greater than or equal should be 'ge', not 'gt'.

By: Disaster

Disaster — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 22:18:48 +0000

This behavior might be if for example you have an virus/trojan/malware which you try to kill. but there might be another one that will restore it again and again.
But in this case the PID of immortal procecc will be changed.(i guess)

By: Abc

Abc — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:49:45 +0000

This is good information

- cheers

By: Grend

Grend — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:26:00 +0000

I guess you learn new things every day. I've been using the command line for years, and I didn't know about this. I've always been using tskill, though I suppose there is little difference in the end, eh?

By: morph

morph — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 04:31:37 +0000

@thedylman These utilities are available only for xp pro.
You can couple it with the tasklist /SVC command to see the process id of the process and then use taskkill on it that way you can be sure of the process you are terminating and can also spot malwares. See this link

By: bloemeke

bloemeke — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 14:29:28 +0000

How about killing only the last instance of the program and not the first on

By: Fernando

Fernando — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:49:05 +0000

cool :) Really Thanks