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Kill a Process from the Windows Command Line

4 Comments Published by Steven 4 years, 4 months ago in Tips and Windows

To terminate a process from the command line of windows, use the taskkill command:
When you know the name of the image to stop:
taskkill /IM notepad.exe
Or when you know the process ID, eg 784:
taskkill /PID 784
For more usage variants, type taskkill /?

NB: some of this information about what processes are running can be obtained by the tasklist command.

4 Responses to “Kill a Process from the Windows Command Line”

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1 James Jul 27th, 2006 at 3:05 am

You are the best. I have been looking for this command to refresh the registry after merging a reg file. Thanks
2 Frank Visa Nov 22nd, 2006 at 6:50 pm

yes, perfect. Thank you
3 Martin Mar 4th, 2007 at 1:27 pm

Thank you!
4 matheo Apr 18th, 2007 at 12:12 pm

This is not working in win98… help!