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 …

May 22, 2010 · Example: taskkill /im examplename.exe taskkill /im examplename1.exe taskkill /im examplename2.exe or taskkill /f /im examplename.exe taskkill /f /im examplename1.exe taskkill /f /im …

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, …

Jun 15, 2015 · 0 you need to open a shell with system permissions to kill the process! Sysinternal's psexec is your friend: psexec -s taskkill /im MyTask.exe /f or if the process is acually a service: …

Oct 18, 2017 · taskkill /F /IM MicrosoftEdge.exe will kill it dead, but this will also terminate any other instances as well. In my experience, this force close will re-open with all tabs that were open before …

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

taskkill /im node.exe And if the processes still persist, you can force the processes to terminate by adding the /f flag:

Change the invocation to this: taskkill /im "test.exe" /f >nul 2>&1 and all will be better. That works because stdout is file descriptor 1, and stderr is file descriptor 2 by convention. (0 is stdin, …