Sunday, September 13, 2009

How to kill multiple processes?

Have you ever had Internet Explorer or Chrome or some other program freeze up (it seems to be especially common with web browsers) and you couldn't get it to close by clicking close button right side of the title bar? So you open Task Manager(Ctrl+Alt+Del), go to the Processes tab and proceed to kill the process (for example, iexplore.exe) but you find there are half a dozen or more of them. Don't you wish you could kill them all at once instead of having to right-click each one and select to end it? Well, you can. Here's how:

  1. Click the Start button.
  2. In the Search box, type cmd to open the command window.
  3. At the command prompt, type: taskkill /F /IM /T

For example, to kill all instances of the IE process, you would type: taskkill /F /IM iexplore.exe /T

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