How can I kill a process from the command prompt on Windows NT?

Question

How can I kill a process from the command prompt on Windows NT? Preferably with a tool that comes with the operating system.

Answer 1

If you had XP or later you could use TASKKILL. This on not NT though.

I think you're going to have to download something to do this. I'd recommend pskill from Sysinternals.

You can use this either with a process ID or just with a process name. For example:

pskill notepad.exe

Another option is KILL from the NT Resource Kit.

Answer 2

To kill process with children (like apache), from Windows XP to Windows Seven :

TASKKILL /T /F /PID 4520

Answer 3

We can use VBScript and WMI to kill processes:

Dim strComputer,objWMIService,objProcessList,objProcess
strComputer = "."
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" & "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")
Set objProcessList = objWMIService.ExecQuery("SELECT * FROM Win32_Process WHERE Name = 'THE PROCESS NAME'")
For Each objProcess in objProcessList
  objProcess.Terminate()
Next

Or in modern windows editions, we can use Powershell:

Stop-Process -Name "PROCESS NAME WITHOUT EXTENSION"

Answer 4

There are a couple of choices:

KILL Command

kill process name or id

or

kill -f process name or id

AT Utility

at time /interactive cmd /c kill -f process name or id

And of course

Reboot :-)