Kill multiple windows XP processes
Yesterday I had the following problem:
my Chrome browser crashed and my system began to crawl. I decided to kill the chrome process, but as multiple tabs have been opened, I would need to kill multiple chrome processes (each tab runs in a seperate process in Chrome). Loading the gui of the task manager in a very slowly responsive system and killing each process seperately was not a good option, so I decided to do the following:
- I opened a command prompt (start->run->cmd)
- Then I typed:
taskkill /F /FI "IMAGENAME eq chrome*"
- And that was it. All processes named chrome have been killed with a single click.
But, let’s examine the parameters of the command:
/F: force kill the process
/FI "IMAGENAME eq chrome*": use a filter and kill every process that has a name that begins with chrome.
for more information about the command, open a command prompt (start->run->cmd) and type:
taskkill/?