This even kills the current command window from which you have triggered the command. Task Manager (Processes) shows 2 'Firefox.exe32' while online.
You can open a new command window and kill all the command windows taskkill /F /IM cmd.exe Sometimes, the command window itself might not be responding. To kill MS Word application(Don’t do this if you haven’t saved your work) taskkill /F /IM WinWord.exe To kill firefox browser application taskkill /F /IM firefox.exe Kill Chromedirver from command line Taskkill /F /IM Chromedriver.exe To kill Chrome browser from CMD Taskkill /F /IM Chrome.exe how many tasks - just two if you haven't specified -no-remote on startup then multiple tasks is a separate issue and you should file a new bug. This can be simply done using taskkill command. Firefox is in the task manager many times there are multiple instances > in task manager now that would be a rare thing. When we can’t get the application to usable state, and closing the application does not work, what we usually tend to do is kill the task/process. Sometimes applications get into hung state when they are overloaded or if the system is running with low available memory. Kill processes consuming high amount of memory taskkill /FI "memusage gt value"įor example, to kill processes consuming more than 100 MB memory, we can run the below command taskkill /FI "memusage gt 102400" More examples We can use below command to kill a process using process id(pid). SUCCESS: Sent termination signal to the process "explorer.exe" with PID 2432. In Windows 7, this throws up a shutdown dialog to the user. Not using /F option, would send a terminate signal. You can restart explorer by running ‘explorer’ from cmd. The above command would make all GUI windows disappear. SUCCESS: The process "explorer.exe" with PID 2432 has been terminated. To kill Windows explorer, the following command would work C:\>taskkill /F /IM explorer.exe If not used, in the above case it will prompt the user if the opened pages in tabs need to be saved. We would need to add /F flag to kill IE without asking for any user confirmation. For example, if we try to to kill Internet explorer with multiple tabs open, tasklist command would ask the user for confirmation. In some cases, we need to forcibly kill applications. SUCCESS: Sent termination signal to the process "mspaint.exe" with PID 1972. Kill all processes running mspaint.exe: c:\>taskkill /IM mspaint.exe We can kill all the processes running a specific executable using the below command. This command has got options to kill a task/process either by using the process id or by the image file name. If you want to do the same from command line., then taskkill is the command you are looking for. We can kill a process from GUI using Task manager.