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 taskkill /? for all of …

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, …

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 process tree …

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 taskkill /f /im …

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, …

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 …

When I ran taskkill to stop the javaw.exe process it would say it had terminated but remained running. The jqs process (java qucikstart) needs to be stopped also.