Kill processes run by a specified user in PowerShell

Question

How can I kill all processes with the same name running by a specified user?

For example, I could have multiple program.exe's running by different users. I could use:

get-process program.exe | kill

to kill all of them. But I just want to kill those instances run by a specified user. Is there a convenient way to do that?

Solution 1

TASKKILL.EXE /FI "USERNAME eq walid" /IM myprog.exe

You can also use wildcards:

TASKKILL.EXE /FI "USERNAME eq w*" /IM m*

For more details type: taskkill.exe /?

Solution 2

V5 users can do this:

Get-Process program.exe -IncludeUserName | Where UserName -match joe | Stop-Process

The -IncludeUserName parameter requires that you are in an elevated console.

Comments

[ssnobody]

possible duplicate of Check for process owner on remote machine and kill it when owner is xyz

[bigbearzhu]

Good to know that, nice and simple.

[bigbearzhu]

To be honest, I now like this better!

[spuder]

To make idempotent, you can check that the process is running as that user with: "(Get-Process myprog.exe -IncludeUserName ).UserName -eq 'foobar'"