PoshTip #22 – How to kill a process?

PoshTip #22 – How to kill a process?

You can use PowerShell to kill a Windows process if the Windows service is not responding. First, you need to find the process ID:

Get-Process | ? {$_.ProcessName -eq "Notepad"}

Handles  NPM(K)    PM(K)      WS(K) VM(M)   CPU(s)     Id ProcessName
-------  ------    -----      ----- -----   ------     -- -----------
     92       9     1500      10308    95     0.06    976 notepad

To stop a process, you can pipe the “Get-Process” cmdlet to the “Stop-Process” cmdlet:

Get-Process | ? {$_.ProcessName -eq "Notepad"} | Stop-Process

You can also do the same thing with the PID:

Stop-Process -id 976

 

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