Shortcut to kill an application

Question

Labview (a programming language) has this nasty habit of hanging after an error while executing and our programmer always goes to task manager to manually kill it. Now I think as a Super User he should use something "easier" to do this!

So now I want to create a (keyboard) shortcut to kill Labview, any thoughts on the best way to do this?

Note: This is for Windows XP

Answer 1

This might help.

To create your own quick-killing mechanism, just create a new shortcut anywhere, using this as the location:

taskkill.exe /f /im labview.exe

Once you are done, you can change the icon, or even assign a shortcut key in the properties dialog—just make sure the shortcut is on your desktop or in the start menu if you want the hotkey to work, since Windows hotkeys don't work in the Quick Launch.

Kudos to Lifehacker and HowToGeek

Answer 2

You can use pskill (in a batch file) to do this.

File KillDodgyApp.bat will be on your desktop and contain the text line:

pskill -t labview.exe

and this can be double clicked to close the dodgy application.

(Alternatively, create a shortcut to pskill.exe with the parameters "-t labview.exe")