Thursday, August 25, 2011

Kill Processes From The Command Prompt In Windows 7


A few processes start with Windows implicitly by default.
One way to remove these processes is to use msconfig in run.
Then tick off any program that should not start up with Windows.

But some processes do stay even the first way is applied. Use these commands to kill them. (Caution: do know what you are doing before doing it)

In CMD window:
1. Enter command 'tasklist'
2. To kill a process with a name. E.g. To kill firefox, enter the command 'Taskkill /IM firefox.exe /F', /F means by force.
3. To kill a process with PID, enter 'Taskkill /PID 364 /F'

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