Command Prompt - Commands for System Information & Managing Active Tasks

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How to View Your System Information

Command Prompt allows you to view system information by using a simple command:

Code:

systeminfo

Display the List of Currently Running Processes

To view the list of currently running processes, you have to use the tasklist command:

Code:

tasklist

Stop a Process Using Taskkill

To kill or stop a running process, you need to use the taskkill command:

Code:

taskkill

If you want to kill the process that has a PID of 3224, you will type taskkill /PID 3224 and the press Enter.

Code:

taskkill /pid 3224

NOTE: In order to kill any running process, you need to have administrative permissions and run the Command Prompt as administrator.

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