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Kill. Kill a process from the commandline |
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Kill is a little utility that lets you , find, list and kill processes on a Windows system. Sometimes a process hangs and you will find that Taskmanager is unable to end it. In those cases Kill is the tool to use.
The utility is very easy to use. You can find prosesses by name, path and in the case of windowed processes even by caption. As a bonus you can hide, show, maximize and minimize windowed processes. To see a list of all the options enter kill or kill help at the commandprompt.
You can control all processes except for kill itself. This is not an error, it is done because the text entered in a dos-box is copied into the caption as soon as it starts running. That would mean that the dos-box would always respond to bycaption commands. |
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Examples |
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List all processes
c:\>kill list
3936 - FGo.exe
+ Path : C:\PROGRA~1\MayaBase\MayaBase FunGo\FGo.exe
3968 - SetHook.exe
+ Caption: UnsetHook
+ Path : C:\Program Files\Fellowes\MediaFACE 4.0\SetHook.exe
3976 - iTunesHelper.exe
+ Caption: iTunes Helper
+ Path : C:\Program Files\iTunes\iTunesHelper.exe
c:\>
Find processes by name
c:\>kill find iTunes
3976 - iTunesHelper.exe
+ Caption: iTunes Helper
+ Path : C:\Program Files\iTunes\iTunesHelper.exe
c:\>
Kill a process by its ID
c:\>kill 3976
Kill by process
Process killed
c:\>
Kill a process by its Name
c:\>kill killbyname iTunesHelper.exe
Kill by name
Process killed
c:\>
Kill a process by (a part of) its caption
c:\>kill killbycaption "iTunes Helper"
Kill by caption
Process killed
c:\>
Kill a process by the pathname
c:\>kill killbypath "c:\Program Files\CREdit\CREdit.exe"
Kill by path
Process killed
c:\>
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Download |
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NOTE: Be aware that killing a process might leave you with damaged data. The process is not shutting down in a controled manner. MayaBase can not be held responsible for any damage to your files or filsystem as a result of killing processes using kill. If you dont know what you're doing, Dont do it.
Kill has no installer. Download the file and save it to disk. Thats all. Kill is Free.
kill.exe
Windows 95 ans 98 systems might need to install the Microsoft package VCRedist. You can dowload it here. Information about this package can be found here. |
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