Jun 27, 2015 · I just read the following command: taskkill /f /im something.exe I read that /f forces the task to close, but what does /im do?

Sep 8, 2008 · 293 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 …

Sep 21, 2012 · When I did taskkill /IM "process_name" /T /F part of the response was: (child process of PID xxxx) so I checked that PID and it was explorer.exe, restarting it solved my issue.

Tasklist shows process but taskkill is unable to kill it, even as admin Ask Question Asked 8 years, 9 months ago Modified 1 year, 1 month ago

Apr 29, 2023 · Taskkill lets me close chrome or other things while still doing what I am doing. I am not closing windows services as far as I know. I do use taskkill to close MMC when I do task …

May 14, 2016 · I'm running a Visual Studio post build event that shuts down IIS if it's still running after compilation: taskkill /f /im w3wp.exe The following works perfectly if IIS is still running, but …

Aug 19, 2015 · taskkill.exe You can use taskkill.exe. (Source.) It's part of Windows. To terminate the process with process ID 1234: taskkill /pid 1234 To terminate Windows Notepad: taskkill …

Sep 2, 2015 · On Microsoft Technet I can read that taskkill has a /f parameter to kill a process forcefully. I wonder what this does internally, to understand the impact of such an action. …

This answer is not exactly for this case, but it can be useful for people looking how to kill the whole process tree. We need to combine some answers here to get the proper result: kill the …

Example: taskkill /im somecorporateprocess.exe You can also do this to ' force ' kill: Example: taskkill /f /im somecorporateprocess.exe Just add one line per process you want to kill, save it …