How can I kill a process from the command prompt on Windows NT?

Question

How can I kill a process from the command prompt on Windows NT? Preferably with a tool that comes with the operating system.

Solution 1

If you had XP or later you could use TASKKILL. This on not NT though.

I think you're going to have to download something to do this. I'd recommend pskill from Sysinternals.

You can use this either with a process ID or just with a process name. For example:

pskill notepad.exe

Another option is KILL from the NT Resource Kit.

Solution 2

To kill process with children (like apache), from Windows XP to Windows Seven :

TASKKILL /T /F /PID 4520

Comments

[Ivo Flipse]

+1 Actually a much better question than how I formatted it yesterday for XP: superuser.com/questions/48864/shortcut-to-kill-an-applicatio‌​n Though I don't think there will be much of a difference

[Garik]

The AT utility doesn't kill the command. The command line is still using KILL. The advantage of calling it using AT as the KILL runs as LocalSystem instead of the current user which means it my kill some more processes which are less inclined to die.

[user1686]

"This on not NT though." -- Windows XP is NT series, and has taskkill. So I guess you meant "NT 4.0 or older", or something like that.