It’s Three Tips Tuesday and time for more quick and easy Windows tips. Today’s tips aren’t your usual “quick tips”, these tips are rarely seen, but useful nonetheless. At least we hope you find one or more of these tips useful.<\/span><\/p>\n 1> Taskkill<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Windows borrows a feature from Linux. Taskkill allows you to terminate a running process (program) from the command line. Here\u2019s how you use it:<\/span><\/p>\n Hold down the Windows key and tap the R key. In the run box type CMD and press Enter. A Command prompt will open.<\/span><\/p>\n Type Tasklist at the prompt. You\u2019ll see a list of running processes. Next to each process, you\u2019ll see a PID number. To kill any running task, type taskkill\/PID xxx (where xxx represents the PID number of the task you want to terminate). You can kill more than one process at a time like this:<\/span><\/p>\n Taskkill \/PID xxxx \/PID xxxx \/PID xxxx (xxxx = the PID number of the task you want to kill). There are a lot more modifiers too. If you are interested, see Microsoft TechNet’s article on Taskkill here<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Why would you want to use this? Because you can… or maybe because your computer is non-responsive and you can\u2019t access Task Manager. Or maybe you’re trying to rid your computer of malware and you have to kill all its process(es) before you can remove it. Sometimes malware prevents you from ending a process using Task Manager \/End process.<\/span><\/p>\n 2>\u00a0 Edit user accounts using the command line<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Hold down the Windows key and tap the R key. In the run box type CMD and press Enter. Now type control userpasswords2<\/span> at the prompt and press Enter.<\/span><\/p>\n 3>\u00a0 Create a desktop shortcut to Task Manager<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n You can access Task Manager by right-clicking on your taskbar and choosing Task Manager, you can use CTRL+SHIFT+ESC, or you can use the three-finger salute (CTRL+ALT+DELETE) and click \u201cTask Manager\u201d on the menu which appears.<\/span><\/p>\n Did you know that you can also create a shortcut to Task Manager and leave it on your desktop, put it on your Windows 10 or Windows 11 start menu or taskbar? You can and it\u2019s easy to do.<\/span><\/p>\n Right-click on your desktop and choose \u201cNew\u201d > \u201cShortcut\u201d and copy and paste the following (in bold) into the \u201ctype location of the item\u201d field:<\/span><\/p>\n %windir%\\system32\\taskmgr.exe<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Once you\u2019ve created your shortcut, right-click on it in Windows 10 and choose “Pin to Start” or “Pin to taskbar”. If you’re using Windows 11, Shift + right-click on the shortcut, and choose “Pin to Start menu” or “Pin to taskbar” or just leave the shortcut on your desktop. The next time you need to launch Task Manager, use your new shortcut.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n ‘<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Three Tips Tuesday > Part Six It’s Three Tips Tuesday and time for more quick and easy Windows tips. Today’s tips aren’t your usual “quick tips”, these tips are rarely seen, but useful nonetheless. At least we hope you find one or more of these tips useful. 1> Taskkill Windows borrows a feature from Linux. Taskkill\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4458,3948,4299,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26066"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26066"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26070,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26066\/revisions\/26070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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