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.
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I start a program from a scilab script via the command line, start myprog.exe.
After the start my scilab script needs to keep going.
Now I want to stop exactly this instance of the process via the command line too, even if several instances of the same program are running.
Is that possible?
I know how to query via batch files whether a process of this program is running and then stop it, but I don't know how to get the exact allocation.
Is there something like a process id?
I use this to check if the process is running:
tasklist /fi "imagename eq ccx.exe" |find ":" > nul
if errorlevel 1 echo Program is running
if not errorlevel 1 echo Program is not running
Use the command tasklist to view all running tasks with their PID
then
Taskkill /PID 26356 /F
or
Taskkill /IM myprog.exe /F
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.
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
I am trying to install some windows standalone update files and to do this I need to use wusu.exe. Every now and again wusu.exe will hang. I have created a batch file called prereqs.bat and in this file I have calls to the wusu.exe. I need the code to kill wusu.exe if it hangs, and retry it again.
This is my code as it stands now:
:PreReqs32
taskkill /im prereqs32.bat /f
taskkill /im wusa.exe /f
when it loops back, it kills both the batch file and wusa.exe
start cmd /k c:\windows\temp\prereqs.bat
An outside process so that I can kill wusu.exe if things go awry.
timeout /t 240 /NOBREAK
this timeout is to wait until the install is complete which is sometimes not enough.
taskkill /im "[wusa.exe]" /fi "STATUS eq NOT RESPONDING"
if "%ERRORLEVEL%"=="1" goto PreReqs32
Is there a way for some sort of FOR loop, with logic to exit if the status is not "not responding"?
Also, as a bonus, is there a way to forgo the timeout and just "wait" for prereqs.bat to be complete before moving on, assuming that wusu.exe has not hung?
I have a .cmd file which I call to open multiple instances of Command Prompt via:
launcher.cmd -fs
launcher.cmd -tds
launcher.cmd -fsd
Each command open a new command prompt.
So what I want to do is create a batch file to automatically close all the opened Command Prompt instead of manually doing it.
Be carefull: you might kill more processes than you want:
taskkill /IM cmd.exe
You can add extra filters:
taskkill /IM cmd.exe /FI "WINDOWTITLE eq launcher*"
use
tasklist /FI "imagename eq cmd.exe " /V
to get a glimpse of what cmd.exe processes will be taskkill-ed
You could add the /F parameter to force the process to close but I would only use that if the process doesn't respond to a normal request.
Just a little note why accepted answer from Rene may not work. I was starting my apps from cmd file like
start "" my.exe -my -args
where my.exe was a console app and it was looking like cmd window I wanted to kill, but process name was not cmd.exe (!) and I had to use command like
taskkill /IM my.exe
So in some cases it worth to check the real process name, for example in the windows task manager.
TASKKILL /F /IM cmd.exe /T
good solution