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.

Jan 14, 2014 · 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 8, 2008 · 295 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 …

Tasklist shows process but taskkill is unable to kill it, even as admin Ask Question Asked 9 years, 1 month ago Modified 1 year, 5 months ago

Jun 8, 2012 · I was starting cmd shell windows using AutoIt and the tip about using tasklist really helped. I already tried the double spaces but AutoIt's Run () command created the cmd.exe shell in a manner …

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.

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 /im …

Dec 8, 2015 · You can run this command from cmd or the start menu: taskkill /f /im name.exe This also has a /S parameter to allow you to set the system to connect to. So you will be able to: taskkill /s …

Nov 16, 2014 · taskkill /f /pid 1230 What I need to know are the return codes from the taskkill to be able to see if the process was terminated or not and the reasons why it may not have been.

I was running zookeeper on Windows and wasn't able to stop ZooKeeper running at 2181 port using zookeeper-stop.sh, so tried this double slash "//" method to taskkill.