Kill Active Process

Copyright 1997 Pragma Systems, Inc.

kill.exe

If you have the proper access rights, the kill program terminates a running process with a valid process ID. The processID may be in decimal or hexadecimal notation. This program follows the Microsoft standards for killing an independent process.

USAGE:

kill /P processID | /F filename [/I] [/?]  

COMMAND OPTIONS:

/P processID   process ID you wish to kill 

/F filename  filename of the process to kill. This option will kill all processes with this name

/I   Interactive Mode 

/?   Displays text help file 

EXAMPLES:

To kill Process 135 (decimal), type: 

kill /P 135

or 

kill /P 0x87

 

To kill all cmd processes

 

Kill /F cmd.exe