Comments on: taskkill – kill pocesses under windows from command line

By: PctechJR

PctechJR — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 08:42:10 +0000

It helps if you look up help in (taskkill /?) it brings up all the commands for taskkill, one that always works for me is: taskkill /f /im program.exe /t

By: manoj Panigrahi

manoj Panigrahi — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:07:41 +0000

“ERROR: Initialization failure” while doing end process from CMD.

By: aurimas.norkevicius

aurimas.norkevicius — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:18:22 +0000

It can bet that you have two processes “firefox” running one child and one parent … Child can be killed but parrent restarts it … You have to kill parent … In this case you have to use come sommand line tool to retrieve pids of the processes

By: sam

sam — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:33:05 +0000

i’m trying to kill firefox as it keeps hanging, but although taskkill says success, firefox remains a process and hung.

By: pokekid88

pokekid88 — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 09:33:18 +0000

I’m trying to kill sth on a local machine but taskkill got the following error..

“Logon failure: Invalid username or bad password”

Is there a need to logon using local machine??

By: aurimas.norkevicius

aurimas.norkevicius — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 11:01:28 +0000

Thank you, Nicolas. One of my application uses this command to kill tasks and I’ve noticed that it some times fails to terminate the task. Your solution will help I guess…

By: nicolas

nicolas — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 22:46:43 +0000

taskkill does NOT kill the task. It sends a WM_CLOSE to the process’ main window, which is the same as clicking the X button. If program is hanged, or doesn’t have any window, this won’t work.

Use taskkill /F /im program.exe (/F for Forced), this really kills the process. Same as killing it from task manager.