How to Kill a process in Windows 10

Using A Task Manager: Task Manager is a startup manager that lists all the running processes, it grants permission to create a task as well as it allows to kill a single process at a time. Check this guide on How to Kill a process in Windows 10.
 
Using Command Prompt: Through Command prompt, you can kill tasks more effectively, and you can also kill multiple processes at the same time. That’s why this can be the most preferred option to kill processes simultaneously.

Steps to Kill a process in Windows 10


Step 1: Type “Task Manager” in Windows search bar. You’ll see Task Manager app, just click on it to open.



Step 2: Now, Select the application or process that you want to kill, for that just right click on that particular process, you’ll find “End Task” option. Click on it to stop the process.



How to Kill a process in Windows 10


Method 2:

Step 1: Type “cmd” in Windows search bar, the “cmd” stands for Command Prompt, Just right-click on it and choose “Run as administrator” as shown in the image below.

Step 2: Now, a black screen appears, that is the command prompt, First type the command “tasklist” to view all the tasks which are currently running.

You will get the list of all tasks as shown in the figure below.

Step 3: If you directly type the command “taskkill /taskname/F” as I wrote “taskkill /notepad.exe/F”, where F stands for forcefully, then that task will not end as you have not entered the type of file. Hence, You”ll get the error as an invalid argument.

To know about the type of file, run the command “TASKKILL / ?”.How-to-kill-a-process

Step 4: Parameter list will appear on your screen, read it properly. For an example, if you need to stop notepad then you need to type “IM” before notepad.exe, where IM stands for the image name.
Step 5: As, I want to kill a notepad process, i.e., notepad.exe, so I just typed “taskkill / IM notepad.exe and pressed enter.


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