How To Kill All Processes With The Same Name On Windows
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The taskkill command can be used many different ways to end or kill running processes on Windows Server 2012 and above. Taskkill replaces the kill command that is available in lower versions of Windows.
Processes can be killed by either Process ID (PID) or Image (Process) Name.
A full description of the options available and various examples can be found in the Microsoft Windows Documentation for taskkill.
The command below will end all running processes with the name notepad.exe:
taskkill /F /IM notepad.exe /T
- /F = force the process to terminate
- /IM = specify the image name
- /T = terminate the specified process and any child processes started by it
I hope that helps someone to be able to kill all processes with the same name on Windows.
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Thank you. That helped me save ~ one hour of manually task termination 🙂
I’m glad it worked for you, Marco.😊
Doesn’t work on cmd.exe unless you only have a single instance running. If you have multiples it won’t kill any of them.