Comments on: Kill Tasks from Command Prompt

By: Rgrant222

Rgrant222 — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 23:37:50 +0000

Actually, the syntax is:
taskkill /pid #
so to kill process 5724, for example, you would type:
taskkill /pid 5724

Also, you can always read the help by typing:
taskkill /?

By: Newnewgen

Newnewgen — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 15:21:43 +0000

Hi,
In the Task Manager under application tab, the list of task needs to be displayed in command line. The command tasklist displays the process. But I require only the application tab details, also need the Image name under Process Tab.

Is there a command to display the task name under application tab in command line

By: ldhacker

ldhacker — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 01:26:48 +0000

To do this in windows 7 you type “taskkill PID Number”

By: Reagan

Reagan — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 21:49:28 +0000

On my HP G61 with Windows 7, I tried all the steps and it failed to recognize “tskill”

By: Jo

Jo — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:24:17 +0000

Nevermind I got it:

Use TASKKILL and stuff :)

By: Jo

Jo — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:14:11 +0000

I have disabled UAC long time ago, and it says:
‘tskill’ is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

Is there a way to extract the PID of a given program ?

By: Dylan

Dylan — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:33:30 +0000

I have a virus right now that is running from a windows schedueled task. I can’t get to any program other than Windows Task Manager, which is no help, and once the cmd prompt is up from Task Manager, it doesn’t open under my account so taskkill is no use what so ever. I am about to wipe my drive. Maybe, still trying, RunAlyzer is some help. The main problem is that once i kill all, roughly, thirty processes from the virus, they all come back. I can’t get rid of them. I tried killing them all from RunAlyzer, but the schedueled task just brought them all back. I need help fast.

By: Sarath Sasi

Sarath Sasi — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:14:35 +0000

‘tskill” command is not working in Vista?

Try to disable User account control(UAC) from the control panel .Then restart computer.
Then try agin. It will work

By: Anil Veluri

Anil Veluri — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:09:11 +0000

Its Good. But do you know how to hard kill all the tasks running on a Server Computer which is processing several requests from different client computers.

By: 123

123 — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 07:34:31 +0000

this does not work in vista, does anone know a vista way of doing this?

By: Vaibhav

Vaibhav — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 16:29:50 +0000

Informative one, will be useful some day :)

By: kishore

kishore — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 02:22:18 +0000

That is a nice trick in Windows… Does it work in Vista too

By: shaun

shaun — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 18:54:05 +0000

Sweet thanks for the info.

By: Haris

Haris — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 16:48:37 +0000

@Madhur: I’m glad you liked it :)

By: Madhur Kapoor

Madhur Kapoor — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 16:43:05 +0000

cool tip buddy . never knew this

By: Haris

Haris — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 16:36:18 +0000

Yeah, the most common reason for such problems is viruses and trojans. And the latest virus that is nowdays circulating an many PCs is the New Folder virus. It disables your Task Manager, and you can’t even stop its process.

By: Vaibhav

Vaibhav — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 16:21:25 +0000

Cant this be a case because of Viruses and trojans??

By: Ashok Arora

Ashok Arora — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 11:13:46 +0000

Nice tip, I also encountered similar problem few days ago, but my command prompt was also disabled