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  • wrote on last edited by phenomlab
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    Need a way to terminate multiple instances of a process all at once? There’s a handy native utility called taskkill which is your new friend 🙂

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    Another tip 🙂 in most cases, you’ll need to run cmd.exe as Administrator.

    Very handy when you need to kill mutiple processes - available switches below

    https://ss64.com/nt/taskkill.html

  • wrote on last edited by
    #2

    As an aside to this, there is also the command of tasklist which will provide a list of processes running on your machine, or a remote machine you are looking to query.

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    There is also a useful list of switches below, plus the ability to format into a table, or CSV.

    https://ss64.com/nt/tasklist.html


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