when i run the command: taskkill /f /pid 16140
I get this : ERROR: The process "16140" not found.
Right click on Name column in Task Manager, check PID to show PID of processes, then execute taskkill /pid {PID}.
Note that some processes cannot be terminated by taskkill, for example Task Manager.
You can kill a process by the process ID (PID) or by image name (EXE filename).
Open up an Administrative level Command Prompt and run tasklist to see all of the running processes:
C:\>tasklist
Image Name PID Session Name Mem Usage
========================= ======== ================ ============
firefox.exe 26356 Console 139,352 K
regedit.exe 24244 Console 9,768 K
cmd.exe 18664 Console 2,380 K
conhost.exe 2528 Console 7,852 K
notepad.exe 17364 Console 7,892 K
notepad.exe 24696 Console 22,028 K
notepad.exe 25304 Console 5,852 K
explorer.exe 2864 Console 72,232 K
In the example above you can see the image name and the PID for each process. If you want to kill the firefox process run:
C:\>Taskkill /IM firefox.exe /F
or
C:\>Taskkill /PID 26356 /F
The /f flag is kills the process forcefully. Failure to use the /F flag will result in nothing happening in some cases. One example is whenever I want to kill the explorer.exe process I have to use the /F flag or else the process just does not terminate.
taskkill /im myprocess.exe /f
The "/f" is for "force". If you know the PID, then you can specify that, as in:
taskkill /pid 1234 /f
Lots of other options are possible, just type taskkill /? for all of them. The "/t" option kills a process and any child processes; that may be useful to you
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taskkill /F /IM java.exe ---I have use this before but I have 2 java.exe and I have to stop only one.
Now I have tried below command
wmic process where ExecutablePath='C:\Dir1\image.exe' delete
What will be the effect of this changw?
It will only kill/stop the process or it will delete anything?
I have a working TASKKILL command that kills python.exe using Process Name
I'd like to narrow the scope of the command to kill a specific process (myScript.py) but can't use ProcessID as it changes with every run.
Is there a way I can add detail from the Command Line which knows the python script's name?
Current Command:
Taskkill /IM python.exe /F >nul 2>&1
if errorlevel 1 (echo PYTHON.exe NOT FOUND) else (echo PYTHON.exe KILLED)
You might be able to kill it based on your Python script's memory usage. In my case, the Python script is running a GUI, so the size gives it away.
taskkill /f /fi "IMAGENAME eq python.exe" /fi "MEMUSAGE gt 130000"
This reads as, forcefully kill the task (taskkill /f) identified by (/fi) the Python executable (IMAGENAME eq python.exe) which is using more than 130,000KB (MEMUSAGE gt 130000)1.
1 See taskkill /? for builtin help.
N.B. You might find this SO post helpful: Find Windows PID of a python script with Windows Command Prompt. Unfortunately, for me, It Doesn't Work⢠but maybe you will have better luck.
I have a windows service named 'shipper' running which processes files.
In task manager, the Services tab shows the following
name:shipper
PID: 5000
status:running
In the Process tab:
image name: java.exe
user: SYSTEM
When I execute the following:
taskkill /f /PID 5000
task manager (Services tab) shows that the service is stopped.
However, it continues to execute and process files.
Only when I end the process in task manager will the process stop.
Similarly, this will work:
taskkill /f /im "java.exe"
But of course, that kills all java processes.
What is the correct way, using taskkill (or another standard windows command) to kill the process using the name of the service ("shipper" in this case)?
Thanks
Find the processID used by your service:
for /f "tokens=2 delims=:" %%i in ('sc queryex "shipper" ^|findstr PID') do echo %%i
or try a filter TASKKILL /F /FI "services eq shipper"
in addition you may use the following parameter of taskkill:
/T
Tree kill: terminates the specified process and any child processes which were started by it.
I am having problems with the taskkill in batch, I am trying to kill a vbscript that is in sleep for an x amount of seconds.
So basically I want to kill this task:
http://i.imgur.com/nNVf1Fh.png
But I somehow seem to get it wrong, I have no clue what part of the task I have to write in the taskkill x
Thank you in advance!
This will kill it without knowing the pid, however it will kill all instances of wscript.exe.
TASKKILL /F /IM wscript.exe
From the task manager top menu, select to show the Process ID for this running process.
Then on command prompt,
taskkill /pid 1234
Where 1234 id the Process ID you want to kill.
VBScripts do have a timeout parameter - see cscript /?.
taskkill /im wscript.exe /im cscript.exe /f
will kill all running vbscripts.
If you want to be particular how do you tell the running scripts apart.
I need to kill a windows process (java.exe). I'm currently using:
taskkill.exe /F /IM java.exe
I need to use the /F option since is a critical process,but in this way I get a return code 1 instead I need a return code 0 (returned when I don't use /F for killing other not critical processes)
how could I fix this problem?
Many thanks
You can try with :
TASKKILL /F /IM "notepad.exe"
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Why don't you use PowerShell?
Stop-Process -Name java.exe
From the old command prompt:
powershell -Command "Stop-Process -Name java.exe"
I am using following command on Windows Server 2008R2
Taskkill /IM B2B_Crawler_V2.exe /F
Refer Taskkill and Killing a process in Batch and reporting on success
Execute this in CMD
Get the list of open processes
netstat -a -o -n
And then kill the process on that port with the following command
taskkill /F /PID <pid>