When in the command prompt: I am looking for a Windows equivalent of CTRL+C in unix and mac to force exit a program in a command prompt. Sometimes my program would just infinitaly wait for... something and I would like to close it without hitting CTRL+ALT+DELETE and force quitting the windows command prompt. Thanks!
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Ctrl+D also works sometimes. – William Oct 20 '15 at 15:08
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Ctrl + C will stop a program running from the command prompt, similar to other operating systems.
To force kill a process from the command prompt, use the following command:
taskkill /F /IM process.exe
/F will force termination, /IM means you're going to provide the executable (image) name, and process.exe is the process to end.
answered Oct 20 '09 at 18:11
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How to get arround ERROR: The process "remoting_host.exe" with PID 8164 could not be terminated. Reason: Access is denied. – Matthis Kohli Sep 1 '19 at 16:19
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Found it myself, going to Services and killing the service with the PID that was returned above. – Matthis Kohli Sep 1 '19 at 16:23
Actually, it's Ctrl+C on Windows too. Ctrl+Break usually works as well, but with some commands it has some interesting differing semantics compared to Ctrl+C (see ping -t for example).
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Just wanted to add that Ctrl+Pause also works. Yes, Pause and Break are the same key for most computers, but in my case, and I am sure others, I have to press the FN key if I want to use the Break portion of that key. So, pressing Ctrl + FN + Break works, but so does Ctrl + Pause, which is great for those of us that want to use as few keys as possible. – Rolo Jun 6 '14 at 14:16
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According to my experience most program only stops by ctrl+break and less stop with ctrl+c – PHPst Apr 21 '16 at 18:37
Normally, that would be CTRL-BREAK (the PAUSE/BREAK key on a 101-key keyboard) but I think this can be disabled.
Give it a shot.
But this isn't really a programming question so I'm voting to shift it to superuser.
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1Do you have any idea if there's an equiv. for a macbook keyboard? thanks! – Anonymous Oct 19 '09 at 4:12
Command to exit command prompt:
taskkill /IM cmd.exe
