Task Manager is the right place to kill a program that hangs or turns into not responding. While you can make them auto-kill, sometimes it’s not preferable, and sometimes even the task manager hangs. Here is a nifty trick that lets you kill a hanged program from the command prompt in Windows 11/10
Windows has two programs—Taskkill and Tasklist. While the former can kill running programs, the following lists all the running applications. You need both as taskkill needs a PID or Process ID of that program, which you can find through the tasklist command. So let’s give it a run. That’s is how Task List looks like when you run tasklist.exe
How to Kill Hanged Program From Command Prompt in Windows 11/10
- Open the Run prompt using Win + R and type cmd.
- First, figure out the PID of the program you want to kill using tasklist.exe.
- Note the PID, and then type taskkill /PID and hit enter.
- It will terminate the program.
How to use Taskkill with different options
TASKKILL [/S system [/U username [/P [password]]]] { [/FI filter] [/PID processid | /IM imagename] } [/F] [/T]
Description: This command line tool can end one or more processes. Processes can be killed using the process id or image name with Taskkill.
Parameter List:
- /F Specifies to terminate the process(es) forcefully.
- /PID process id Specifies the PID of the process that has to be terminated.
- /IM image name Specifies the image name of the process that has to be terminated. Wildcard ‘*’ can be used to specify all image names.
- /T Tree kill: ends the specified process and any child processes which were started by it.
You need to terminate all the processes if an application has sub-applications or a child program. Get the PID from Task List and then kill it forcefully using the /F option or /T for the child process.
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JP
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Hi,
In the Task Manager under application tab, the list of task needs to be displayed in command line. The command tasklist displays the process. But I require only the application tab details, also need the Image name under Process Tab.
Is there a command to display the task name under application tab in command line