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XP: kill a Windows process from the command line with taskkill | Windows | Tech-Recipes

Started by qdideas · 9 months ago

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  • Anonymous

    5 years ago

    Cool! This rocks!
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  • The DylMan

    5 years ago

    does no work with XP home edition
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  • Padre

    5 years ago

    Well how the heck do we get it on XP Home?
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  • 6 months ago

    tskill works.
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  • qmchenry

    5 years ago

    Definitely annoying that something so simple is lacking in XP Home. Means that if you want to write a batch program that uses this (or several other commands) won't run on all the current versions of Windows. As a theoretical exercise, I just determined that the taskkill.exe command copied from XP Pro does work on XP Home for what that's worth.
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  • tom

    4 years ago

    any scripts or batch file that will kill a process that takes 40% of cpu
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  • Sharky

    4 years ago

    :(

    why can't micro$oft have this in home? We've already paid loads for the OS, so why should we have to upgrade?
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  • davak

    4 years ago

    <ul id="quote"><h6>Sharky wrote:</h6>:(

    why can't micro$oft have this in home? We've already paid loads for the OS, so why should we have to upgrade?</ul>

    What is everybody so crazy about? What's wrong with tskill for XP home?

    C:Documents and SettingsTechrx>tskill
    Invalid parameter(s)
    Ends a process.

    TSKILL processid | processname [/SERVER:servername] [/ID:sessionid | /A] [/

    processid Process ID for the process to be terminated.
    processname Process name to be terminated.
    /SERVER:servername Server containing processID (default is current).
    /ID or /A must be specified when using processname
    and /SERVER
    /ID:sessionid End process running under the specified session.
    /A End process running under ALL sessions.
    /V Display information about actions being performed.
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  • AnT

    4 years ago

    I have not that tskill!!!!
    I think you have installed it, do u remember where did u find it?
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  • davak

    4 years ago

    These webpages suggest tskill comes with xp home:

    http://www.wilderssecurity.com/archive/index.ph...
    I have recently learned you can shutdown a program by using the tskill command in xp home (and taskkill in pro).

    http://www.langa.com/newsletters/2004/2004-03-1...
    Both XP Home and Pro support Tskill, but XP Pro also has an even more powerful tool called TASKKILL.

    If you want to download a similiar set of tools try:
    http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/psto...
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  • gigajosh

    4 years ago

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  • Anonymous

    4 years ago

    Why is this so exciting?What the advantage over killing a process through Task Manager?

    Moorloch
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  • Anonymous

    4 years ago

    Unattended task killing. That's the thing.
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  • NuMeN

    4 years ago

    Does the taskkill work with Windows server 2003 ?
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  • Anonymous

    3 years ago

    <ul id="quote"><h6>Moorloch wrote:</h6>Why is this so exciting?What the advantage over killing a process through Task Manager?

    Moorloch</ul>

    Task Manager won't always kill a process. HpWebjet for example won't close correctly through Task Manager. Have to either reboot or taskkill it from a command prompt with a /F.
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  • Anonymous

    3 years ago

    is there a similiar program for win2k, which allows killing processes by their title name?
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  • neubie

    3 years ago

    hi is there a cmmand to Kill a specific poggie when command is blocked by an administrator ....what i mean to say is that i ised the forece kill and and it said access is denied ----command is access denied as well wha ti wish to know is there a way to forcefully terminate a program ignoring access restrictions or forcefully open one ignoing the restrictions?????can some one help me??
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  • Anonymous

    2 years ago

    I am really happy with the solutions that are uploaded on the web site. they are awesome and reliable.
    Best Regards,
    Rajiv
    From HP softwares :P
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  • pro-ipod

    2 years ago

    I am sure I speak for mightyq, Davak, and all the rest of the techrx crew when I say Thanks!
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  • Anonymous

    2 years ago

    Well, even this can't kill every task. I tried forcing it, but nothing happened, so only reboot helped me. But anyway, thanks, this is a useful command, I won't forget it.
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  • Anonymous

    9 months ago

    old thread, I know, but I'm trying to kill processes that nothing will kill. Not task manager, taskkill nor pskill as listed above from sysinternals. pskill in fact, is even worse than taskkill as taskkill reports an error when trying to kill the tasks while pskill incorrectly reports it is successful.

    Anyone know of any other "more potent" ways to kill a task?
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  • Anonymous

    9 months ago

    and this is a little off the topic of discussion ... but it is a windows general question. i've had my laptop for approx. two years now, and since purchase i've had a random freezing problem. i've reformatted the hd several times, and it certainly does improve after the format, but soon begins to reoccur. anyone have any suggestions about this?
    thanks. will
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  • coder

    9 months ago

    Check for hardware or memory faults. If there are hardware issues then it will slowly corrupt your OS in odd ways eventually causing it to crash more often.

    Also check for driver issues/conflicts. If a device keeps making hardware interrupt calls it will force the system to respond but if the driver is not going to respond properly it may freeze or just take forever to come back.
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  • Kevski

    8 months ago

    anyone know which service is associated with this? I get the following reply when I run this from the cmd line:
    TASKKILL /F/ IM DTFMON.EXE

    "ERROR: The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it."
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  • Breno

    1 month ago

    Taskkill uses WMI API to search process by name. Enable Windows Management Instrumentation (winmgmt) to use /IM.
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  • farouk

    8 months ago

    good article
    i cant find this command on xp, what to do??
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  • Dez

    7 months ago

    awesome, thanks m8
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  • Dev

    7 months ago

    taskkill doesnt work for me!!
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  • Hern

    6 months ago

    I prefer using Daphne which has it's own command line tool for listing and killing processes.
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  • seg

    6 months ago

    am not getting exactly...and in my cmd its not working...can u mail me?

    matrixjon42@yahoo.com
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  • deen

    6 months ago

    wow very short are there any simple technique to kill the process
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  • ADSF

    6 months ago

    TRY /F FOR ANOTHER USERS PROCESS KILLING , GR8 FUN TO DO SO ;)
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  • Dan

    6 months ago

    "gt: greater than or equal le: less than or equal"

    This is incorrect. "ge" is greater than or equal.

    Dan
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  • aathisankar

    4 months ago

    Thanks a lot .. i have been searching for this command a week//
    It was really useful for my project ... :-)
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  • Vivek

    3 months ago

    thanks ,really i got what expected
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  • swapnil

    2 months ago

    Really cool... thanks for the help..... Toad 9 sucks
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  • Nikhil Bhatt

    1 month ago

    Thanks Guys This Command Helped Me A LOT !!!!!!

    Thanks once again !!!!
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  • Rama

    1 month ago

    I try this and nothing happen. Where do I see changes? But now computer make the grinding noise all time. How to undo command?
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  • GFYM

    3 weeks ago

    only in XP Pro, not in XP Home
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  • fgf

    3 weeks ago

    Sooo how do i shutdown fortiguard and stuff at school to get past internet filter?
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  • kelvin

    1 week ago

    Hello oooo!

    I just want to thank you guy for the content of the site i just click on it and on like other sites i have been i didnt regret it..

    i really learnt new stuff especially based on programming (straight shit now long talks ... good examples)

    just wanna know how i can join the crew...
    men you guys are the boooomb... keep it up.
    thanks
    Kelvin.
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  • Tichomir Mitkov

    6 days ago

    cool, man !
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  • pawan

    4 days ago

    How to the wht is PID of a process
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  • Laura Gullett

    16 hours ago

    ok it comes back and says they are terminated, however, task manager still shows all of the ones killed still in memory. I am REAL tired of constantly rebooting. In all my 20+ tech years I have never seen so many problems, but since there are a vast array of things going on all the time, it is no wonder. MS has to work on REAL solutions with the understanding they have to consider many different programs interacting with the OS at the same time. It is a big challenge they need to work on more than Bing or any other thing, because exponentially more programs will come up each day wanting to work with Windows.
    Laura Gullett
    www.skybits.com
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