Command line way of stopping a process in windows

Question

Is there a command line way of stopping a process if I know the name of the exe (or better give a wildcard). I was about to jump in and write an autohotkey script to do it but I thought I would look for out of the box ways first.

Interested in Windows XP and Vista.

Answer 1

You can use the TaskKill command:

taskkill /IM app.exe
taskkill /IM app*.exe

Answer 2

With PowerShell, you can use Stop-Process supplying either an id or name