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Kill Windows Processes from the Command Line

Posted by chris on November 21st, 2008 in Software

I recently opened a remote desktop connection to my home PC running Windows XP Pro. For some reason when I attempted opening firefox I received a message saying the process is already running and needs to first be terminated. So naturally I opened the run box and typed in taskmgr. Unfortunately it wouldn’t show me more than 10 of the 75 active processes. After some quality time with the googler and fumbling around with the windows taskkill utility I was able to terminate firefox with the following command:

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taskkill /F /IM firefox.exe

The /F switch tells taskkill to forcefully terminate the process and /IM switch tells taskkill that you are referencing the human-readable name of the executable rather than its PID (process ID).

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