{"id":4765,"date":"2012-09-13T18:14:32","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T22:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=4765"},"modified":"2012-09-13T18:14:32","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T22:14:32","slug":"use-windows-taskkill-to-kill-all-instances-of-a-program-instantly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/use-windows-taskkill-to-kill-all-instances-of-a-program-instantly\/","title":{"rendered":"Use Windows Taskkill to kill all instances of a program instantly"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have you ever had an application that is not running well and you look in Task Manager and find that there are 7 or 8 instances running? You can, if you want, right-click each one – one at a time – and choose “End process” or “End process tree” and then click off the Windows warning about making that program unstable.<\/p>\n

There’s a faster way. If you know the name of the program’s exe do this:<\/p>\n

Press the Windows Key + R key and type CMD in the run dialog. Now press Enter. In the command dialog, at the prompt, type:<\/p>\n

TASKKILL \/IM chrome.exe \/F and press Enter<\/p>\n

See?<\/p>\n

\"Cloudeight<\/p>\n

All instances of Chrome running on my computer we’re killed without a whimper from Chrome. And gee! I wasn’t having any problems with Chrome either…but it’s dead now. It’s okay – I can open Chrome up again and all I will get is a little notice that Chrome didn’t shut down correctly. Really? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

The above command will kill all instance of Google Chrome in less than 1 second. Substitute the name of the program whose process you want to kill where I have chrome.exe it the example above. For instance:<\/p>\n

TASKKILL \/IM iexplore.exe \/F will kill all instances of Internet Explorer<\/p>\n

TASKKILL \/IM firefox.exe \/F will kill all instances of Firefox<\/p>\n

As long as you know the program’s exe file name you can kill all instances of any program using this command.<\/p>\n

One more thing. The spaces here are critical. There’s a space after TASKKILL and before the \/. There’s a space after exe and the \/F . if you don’t do the spaces right — you don’t get your reward.:-)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Have you ever had an application that is not running well and you look in Task Manager and find that there are 7 or 8 instances running? You can, if you want, right-click each one – one at a time – and choose “End process” or “End process tree” and then click off the Windows warning about making\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4765"}],"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=4765"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4767,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4765\/revisions\/4767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}