taskkill Command Examples

Terminate a process by its process ID or name. More information: https://learn.microsoft.com/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/taskkill.

• Terminate a process by its ID:

taskkill /pid {{process_id}}

• Terminate a process by its name:

taskkill /im {{process_name}}

• Forcefully terminate a specified process:

taskkill /pid {{process_id}} /f

• Terminate a process and its child processes:

taskkill /im {{process_name}} /t

• Terminate a process on a remote machine:

taskkill /pid {{process_id}} /s {{remote_name}}

• Display information about the usage of the command:

taskkill /?