Comments on: How to kill a windows task at the command line. http://packratstudios.com/index.php/2008/03/13/how-to-kill-a-windows-task-at-the-command-line/ Carefully storing every kernel of knowledge gained... Tue, 15 May 2012 10:37:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: SAK http://packratstudios.com/index.php/2008/03/13/how-to-kill-a-windows-task-at-the-command-line/comment-page-1/#comment-2047 SAK Wed, 01 Apr 2009 03:11:29 +0000 http://packratstudios.com/index.php/2008/03/13/how-to-kill-a-windows-task-at-the-command-line/#comment-2047 This is a very useful post. Thanks. There is an inaccuracy above: /IM "Specifies the image name of the process that has to be terminated. Wildcard '*' can be used to specify all image names." /F "Specifies to forcefully terminate process(es)" i.e. you need /IM to specify a process by name (e.g. sol.exe instead of /PID 810 if you know that an instance of sol.exe is running as PID 810), but /IM doesn't in itself ask for graceful termination. Rather, a process won't be terminated forcefully unless /F is specified. taskkill /? provides information on a number of other potentially useful option switches This is a very useful post. Thanks.

There is an inaccuracy above:

/IM “Specifies the image name of the process that has to be terminated. Wildcard ‘*’ can be used to specify all image names.”

/F “Specifies to forcefully terminate process(es)”

i.e. you need /IM to specify a process by name (e.g. sol.exe instead of /PID 810 if you know that an instance of sol.exe is running as PID 810), but /IM doesn’t in itself ask for graceful termination. Rather, a process won’t be terminated forcefully unless /F is specified.

taskkill /? provides information on a number of other potentially useful option switches

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