Jan 14, 2014 · 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 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.

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 taskkill /? for all of …

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 scheduler …

May 14, 2024 · This process turned out to not be killable using either Powershell, or Taskkill from an Admin command prompt. It was killable from WMIC or Task Manager. Can anyone help me …

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. taskkill (without /f)...

Apr 14, 2019 · 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 …

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

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 as a .bat file, …

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 /im …