kill a Windows process from the command line with taskkill
June 26th, 2007
[tag]taskkill[/tag] usage
To kill a process by name:
taskkill /IM notepad.exe
To kill a single instance of a process, specify its process id (PID).
For example, if the desired process has a PID of 827, use the following
command to kill it:
taskkill /PID 853