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 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 …

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 …

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

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 …

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 …

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

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 …