taskkill window spaces in its title name

Question

I\'m trying to run taskkill on a console window that has spaces in it\'s title. How can I pass this window title to taskkill. I have tried the following:

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Answer 1

I was starting cmd shell windows using AutoIt and the tip about using tasklist really helped. I already tried the double spaces but AutoIt's Run() command created the cmd.exe shell in a manner that tasklist/taskkill could not see the window title.

If I used a loop or AutoIt's WinKill()/WinClose() with the window title for the cmd prompt then AutoIt itself could close the window but my cmd prompt bat files only saw c:\windows\system32\cmd as the window title.

In this case I was able to use AutoIt to kill the window instead of from a batch script.

Answer 2

The trick is to name the cmd process and then kill it by calling the name you have given: The following is starting 6 parallel processes and you can kill any one of choice.

start "cmd001" cmd.exe
start "cmd002" cmd.exe
start "cmd003" cmd.exe
start "cmd004" cmd.exe
start "cmd005" cmd.exe
start "cmd 006" cmd.exe

:: kill the process you want, e.g. cmd005

taskkill /F /FI "WINDOWTITLE eq cmd005" /T

:: kill a process which has a SPACE in its name, e.g. cmd 006

taskkill /F /FI "WINDOWTITLE eq cmd 006" /T

Answer 3

taskkill /F /FI "WindowTitle eq Apache 8184"

Answer 4

Late answer (4yo), but a good way to kill a process when you know only a part of the process name is using the old WMIC.
Here's an example to find and kill a process named "Administrator: My Window Title":

WMIC PROCESS WHERE "NAME LIKE '%Administrator: My Window Title%'" CALL TERMINATE

Answer 5

I've had similar problems, but found out a little bit more.

Problem

I have been trying to close a CMD window (run as administrator) which has set its own window title. So, run CMD as administrator and type:

title CMD with custom title

After much faffing, the following command showed me that setting the window title puts a leading space in front of the title! (No idea why.)

c:\>tasklist /V /FI "WindowTitle eq Administrator*"

Image Name  PID Session Name Session# Mem Usage Status  User Name       CPU Time Window Title
========== ==== ============ ======== ========= ======= =============== ======== =====================================
cmd.exe    4304 Console             1   2,492 K Running MACHINE\My Name  0:00:00 Administrator:  CMD with custom title
                                                                                                                                                                   

                                                        
            

Answer 6

I guess this task run on your windows server . If the title includes "Administrator : " you can not kill the task via WindowTitle equal.

You should use this : This is my killer.bat. SEARCH_PARAMETER = WHAT TITLE YOU WANNA KILL

@echo off
            for /f "tokens=2 delims=," %%a in ('
tasklist /fi "imagename eq cmd.exe" /v /fo:csv /nh 
^| findstr /r /c:".*SEARCH_PARAMETER[^,]*$" ') do taskkill /pid %%a