taskkill (windows)

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Terminate a process by its process id or name. More information: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/taskkill .

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# 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 /?

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