How to kill a particular process(excel.exe) from command line?

Question

My command goes as below:

• TASKKILL /FI "WINDOWTITLE eq Microsoft Excel - Book1 Mine.xlsx"

  This works fine but when I save the same as "Book1 Mine.xsl" and run the same command.

• TASKKILL /FI "WINDOWTITLE eq Microsoft Excel - Book1 Mine.xls"

  It doesn't work.

When I manually opened the Book Mine.xls I see it's opened in compatibility mode. I guess the issue is here.

Question: How to kill a process (the one wiyh Book1 Mine.xls) which is opened in compatibility mode?

I use MS-Office 2010, Windows 7 OS 32 Bit

Any idea how to crack this?

Answer 1

The below is the proper syntax to be used from command prompt to close various tasks:

• taskkill /F /IM excel.exe,
• taskkill /F /IM iexplorer.exe,
• taskkill /F /IM notepad.exe,

Where /F is used to kill the process forcefully.

In your example you have missed IM. Use spaces as shown in example.

Answer 2

You can use wildcards to capture the difference...

eg;

TASKKILL /FI "WINDOWTITLE eq Microsoft Excel - Book1 Mine.*" /f