Any way to write a Windows .bat file to kill processes? [closed]

Answer 1

Download PSKill. Write a batch file that calls it for each process you want dead, passing in the name of the process for each.

Answer 2

Use Powershell! Built in cmdlets for managing processes. Examples here (hard way), here(built in) and here (more).

Answer 3

taskkill /f /im "devenv.exe"

this will forcibly kill the pid with the exe name "devenv.exe"

equivalent to -9 on the nix'y kill command

Answer 4

Here I wrote an example command that you can paste in your cmd command line prompt and is written for chrome.exe.

FOR /F "tokens=2 delims= " %P IN ('tasklist /FO Table /M "chrome*" /NH') DO (TASKKILL /PID %P)

The for just takes all the PIDs listed on the below tasklist command and executes TASKKILL /PID on every PID

tasklist /FO Table /M "chrome*" /NH

If you use the for in a batch file just use %%P instead of %P

Answer 5

You can do this with 'taskkill'. With the /IM parameter, you can specify image names.

Example:

taskkill /im somecorporateprocess.exe

You can also do this to 'force' kill:

Example:

taskkill /f /im somecorporateprocess.exe

Just add one line per process you want to kill, save it as a .bat file, and add in your startup directory. Problem solved!

If this is a legacy system, PsKill will do the same.

Answer 6

Get Autoruns from Mark Russinovich, the Sysinternals guy that discovered the Sony Rootkit... Best software I've ever used for cleaning up things that get started automatically.