We all are familiar with Windows program ‘command prompt‘. It helps us in many ways and we can do many things with the help of this program. Using taskkill command is very effective, but it is not fun to kill running process task in command prompt. It provides you to finish multiple tasks at a time. Users can also monitor your running process task in the background. Taskkill command helps you when your task manager will get stuck or unresponsive due to intensive apps and you will not able to kill the particular process. If you are using task manager then you will not able to kill multiple tasks at a time and command prompt allows you.
Kill or Monitor Your Running Tasks
Many time our system don’t respond properly and many applications are running in the background which can be slow down our system. Many of us are using the third-party application to solve this issue instant of inbuilt features of windows. Because many users don’t know about this kind of commands.
How to kill a running process task with ‘Taskkill’ command in command prompt.
Taskkill
Taskkill command can end one and more than one running task or process. You can kill task by the process ID (PID) or image name. OR This tool is used to terminate tasks by process id (PID) or image name.
You should Know!
Process ID (PID)- It is just a unique number which is used by most of the operating system kernels to uniquely identify an active process. This ID helps to identify a hardware product or a registered software product.
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Syntex
TASKKILL [/S system [/U username [/P [password]]]] { [/FI filter] [/PID processid | /IM imagename] } [/T] [/F]
Parameter List:
/S system Specifies the remote system to connect to.
/U [domain\]user Specifies the user context under which the command should execute.
/P [password] Specifies the password for the given user context. Prompts for input if omitted.
/FI filter Applies a filter to select a set of tasks. Allows “*” to be used. ex. imagename eq acme*
/PID processid Specifies the PID of the process to be terminated. Use TaskList to get the PID.
/IM imagename Specifies the image name of the process to be terminated. Wildcard ‘*’ can be used to specify all tasks or image names.
/T Terminates the specified process and any child processes which were started by it.
/F Specifies to forcefully terminate the process(es).
/? Displays this help message.
Filter Name:-
- STATUS
- IMAGENAME
- PID
- SESSION
- CPUTIME
- MEMUSAGE
- USERNAME
- MODULES
- SERVICES
- WINDOWTITLE
Valid Operators:
- eq (equals)
- ne (not equal)
- gt (greater than)
- lt (less than)
- ge (greater than or equal)
- le (less than or equal)
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Point To Be Noted
1) Wildcard ‘*’ for /IM switch is accepted only when a filter is applied.
2) Termination of remote processes will always be done forcefully (/F).
3) “WINDOWTITLE” and “STATUS” filters are not considered when a remote machine is specified.
Examples: 1
TASKKILL /IM notepad.exe
Examples: 2
TASKKILL /PID 1230 /PID 1241 /PID 1253 /T
Examples: 3
TASKKILL /F /IM cmd.exe /T
Examples: 4
TASKKILL /F /FI “PID ge 1000” /FI “WINDOWTITLE ne untitle*”
Examples: 5
TASKKILL /F /FI “USERNAME eq NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM” /IM notepad.exe
Examples: 6
TASKKILL /S system /U domain\username /FI “USERNAME ne NT*” /IM *
Examples: 7
TASKKILL /S system /U username /P password /FI “IMAGENAME eq note*”
Steps for Killing Tasks with command prompt
Step 1.
Click on the start button and type CMD in the search box.
Step 2.
Right Click on it and then click on Run as Administrator. Then click on YES.
Step 3.
Type tasklist command and you will see the list of running tasks.
C:\Windows\system32>tasklist
Image Name PID Session Name Session# Mem Usage
========================= ======== ================ =========== ============
System Idle Process 0 Services 0 24 K
System 4 Services 0 5,240 K
smss.exe 448 Services 0 136 K
csrss.exe 600 Services 0 3,376 K
wininit.exe 680 Services 0 272 K
csrss.exe 704 Console 1 33,736 K
services.exe 748 Services 0 7,680 K
lsass.exe 764 Services 0 11,012 K
lsm.exe 772 Services 0 2,796 K
winlogon.exe 868 Console 1 2,296 K
svchost.exe 936 Services 0 4,524 K
nvvsvc.exe 1020 Services 0 1,072 K
svchost.exe 472 Services 0 7,296 K
Step 4.
In the above, you will see Image name, PID, Session name, Mem Usage. Now you can close any Application using PID or Image Name.
Example:-
C:\Windows\system32>taskkill/im wmplayer.exe
and your Windows Media player will be close and you will see this message.
SUCCESS: Sent termination signal to the process “wmplayer.exe” with PID 6728.
Step 5.
If you want to close multiple application at a time, then you should use The PID (i recommend).
Taskkill /PID1230 /PID1241 /PID 1253 /T
If you have trees of any application such as multiple firefox.exe processing, then use taskkill /IM firefox.exe command is helpful.
If you want to find a specific task.
C:\Users\lewis>tasklist /fi "IMAGENAME eq TNSLSNR.exe"
Image Name PID Session Name Session# Mem Usage
========================= ======== ================ =========== ============
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Closing Words
Now you will able to kill all running tasks at a single time. CMD taskkill command is helpful when your system is not working properly and want to close some running tasks. Many users also want to stop background tasks of any third party application. Taskkill for multiple process command is very helpful for kill tasks. Be careful before killing your task you may be harmed.
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