04-17-2011, 10:43 PM
Hello there. This is an in depth tutorial on our best friended feature throughout the whole Windows operating system, taskkill.
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Briefing: I shall be going over the following, including people who have never heard of such a thing and reboot their computers in a simple application crash. Read this if thats you:
What is taskkill?
● In computing, taskkill is a command that is used in several popular operating systems to send signals to running processes to request the termination of this process.
What is taskkill for?
● Taskkill is a feature in Microsoft Windows operating systems that send a command to process and process ID to forcefully close itself through the Windows command line. You can use this method in numerous ways such as the run dialog, command line window and Visual Basic DotNet and more.
Why people use taskkill?
● People who run on a Windows platform, well at least experienced users, know what the taskkill command is. It is a command to forcefully exit application processes that are either not responding, or are unwanted running processes (viruses). People use it to close simple applications processes that have crashed instead of rebooting computers for no apparent reason ruining the computer hardware and software to sudden shutdowns. It is an extremely helpful and recommended method I recommend to you to use. Taskkill, is a time saver and a computer saver.
Why is taskkill Windows's best friend?
● Taskkill has existed since the start of the Windows operating system era and only recently has it become used throughout time, for this feature was once not used ever and people were tempted to shutdown the computer forcefully damaging the computer itself. It is truly Windows's best friend since window is prone to application and process crashings over an elapsed average time of two years of computer usage. It is here to rescue you from the start button, > shutdown. Do yourself a favor, and use taskkill.
Why is taskkill Windows's worst friend?
● Taskkill is Windows's worst friend due to the levels of destruction is can most possibly cause such as data loss, application malformation and a slower Windows Operating System. But these obstacles should not keep you from using this wonderful feature we are luckily granted. Clearly data loss would only result if you had been working on a Word Document and closed it forcefully, application malformation would rarely ever occur, most likely a 99.8% chance of it not happening, the application would have to be going through an update process. A slower windows operating system is just an overall thought because forcefully closing these application processes may result in unwanted changes such as the theories/facts I have mentioned earlier in this paragraph.
How do you use taskkill?
● There are numerous ways and methods of using the taskkill feature, and we shall be going over the main ways of using these awesome methods.
Number 1:
"Command Prompt Theory"
"Run Dialog Theory"
This is much more simpler. It is the same as the command prompt theory, except you can straight forwardly type "taskkill /F /IM {processnamehere.exe} /T" into the textbox on the dialog, hit OK and let the task get taskkilled. Using this method, you will be denied attempting to taskkill a process with elevated privileges.
If you think you are too smart for this thread and know it all, add this to your Windows Dictionary.
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I'd appreciate some feedback, on what to improve and on what was good. Thanks guys and remember, knowledge is unpricable.
Briefing: I shall be going over the following, including people who have never heard of such a thing and reboot their computers in a simple application crash. Read this if thats you:
- What is taskkill?
- What is taskkill for?
- Why people use taskkill?
- Why is taskkill Windows's best friend?
- Why is taskkill Windows's worst enemy?
- How do you use taskkill?
What is taskkill?
● In computing, taskkill is a command that is used in several popular operating systems to send signals to running processes to request the termination of this process.
What is taskkill for?
● Taskkill is a feature in Microsoft Windows operating systems that send a command to process and process ID to forcefully close itself through the Windows command line. You can use this method in numerous ways such as the run dialog, command line window and Visual Basic DotNet and more.
Why people use taskkill?
● People who run on a Windows platform, well at least experienced users, know what the taskkill command is. It is a command to forcefully exit application processes that are either not responding, or are unwanted running processes (viruses). People use it to close simple applications processes that have crashed instead of rebooting computers for no apparent reason ruining the computer hardware and software to sudden shutdowns. It is an extremely helpful and recommended method I recommend to you to use. Taskkill, is a time saver and a computer saver.
Why is taskkill Windows's best friend?
● Taskkill has existed since the start of the Windows operating system era and only recently has it become used throughout time, for this feature was once not used ever and people were tempted to shutdown the computer forcefully damaging the computer itself. It is truly Windows's best friend since window is prone to application and process crashings over an elapsed average time of two years of computer usage. It is here to rescue you from the start button, > shutdown. Do yourself a favor, and use taskkill.
Why is taskkill Windows's worst friend?
● Taskkill is Windows's worst friend due to the levels of destruction is can most possibly cause such as data loss, application malformation and a slower Windows Operating System. But these obstacles should not keep you from using this wonderful feature we are luckily granted. Clearly data loss would only result if you had been working on a Word Document and closed it forcefully, application malformation would rarely ever occur, most likely a 99.8% chance of it not happening, the application would have to be going through an update process. A slower windows operating system is just an overall thought because forcefully closing these application processes may result in unwanted changes such as the theories/facts I have mentioned earlier in this paragraph.
How do you use taskkill?
● There are numerous ways and methods of using the taskkill feature, and we shall be going over the main ways of using these awesome methods.
Number 1:
"Command Prompt Theory"
- Alright, for this first step we shall be creating a shrotcut on the desktop directing to CMD.exe and name is Command Prompt.
- After creating this shortcut, depending on what type of application has crashed and its priority level to your computer such that a third part application to an Anti-Virus would differiantiate greatly, you would not need elevated privileges for a third party application. But in the case of a crashed application such as an anti-virus, we must have elevated administrator privileges to prove your identity to the anti-virus as the administrator user, and not any form of malware.
- Next depending if its a high prioritzed application such as an anti-virus, right click and run as an administrator. If it is a third party application or something like a web browser that does not have any priority to your computer, simply open up command prompt.
- Next type in the command prompt: "taskkill /F /IM {processnamehere.exe} /T". What this does is basically the following: (/T) Filter Terminates the specified process and any child processes which were started by it. (/F) Filter Specifies to forcefully terminate the process. (/IM) Filter, IM is short for imagename which is a fancy name for process. After the /IM, you insert the name of the process including ".exe" without quotes.
- After you are done with your input, you simply click the Enter button and the process will be terminated in due time.
"Run Dialog Theory"
This is much more simpler. It is the same as the command prompt theory, except you can straight forwardly type "taskkill /F /IM {processnamehere.exe} /T" into the textbox on the dialog, hit OK and let the task get taskkilled. Using this method, you will be denied attempting to taskkill a process with elevated privileges.
If you think you are too smart for this thread and know it all, add this to your Windows Dictionary.
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I'd appreciate some feedback, on what to improve and on what was good. Thanks guys and remember, knowledge is unpricable.