To kill a program in Windows, OS X or Linux, use the following commands:

  1. Start the program and click on the “Kill” button.
  2. Type “killall” and hit “enter”.
  3. If the program is a system process, it will be killed immediately. If it is a user process, it will be killed after a certain amount of time has passed (usually 10 minutes).

Windows – TSKILL and TASKKILL

TSKILL winword.exe

Word is a program that can save your data, but you have to be careful using it. I tried it out on an unsaved Word doc and it just disappeared when I ran this, no prompts to save the documents. This is pretty much true of all the commands I’m going to mention here as that’s kind of the point. You can kill a program instantly without any questions.

killall -A

The second command, which has more options and is more powerful, is TASKKILL. If you look at the help page for TASKKILL, you see that it can be used to kill processes or threads. ..

TASKKILL /IM PROGRAM_NAME You can also kill a program by using the Processes tab in the Task Manager. To do this, open the Task Manager by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+ESC, and then click on the Processes tab. Next, right-click on the process that you want to kill, and then select Kill. ..

To terminate a process forcefully:

  1. Type “tasKKill” at the command prompt.
  2. Specify the process name or PID.
  3. If you want to kill using the process ID (PID), type “/PID” instead of “/IM.” ..

You can use TASKKILL to remotely connect to another system and kill a process on that remote system. Additionally, what I like is the ability to use wildcards in TASKKILL.

OS X/Linux – KILL and KILLALL

In OS X and Linux, there are two commands for killing processes: KILL and KILLALL. You have to run these in the terminal window. In order to kill a program, you either have to use the program name or the process ID. There are some ways you can find this info. One way is via the Activity Monitor. ..

The command line can be used to find out the process information for a specific process. Top can be used to list all the processes running on a system, while ps -ax can be used to list all the processes that are currently running on a system.

The ps -ax command will list all the processes on your system with their PID and program name. This is a quick way to find the process you want to kill.

kill -9 <process_name> ..

Terminal processes are numbered with the letter “83002.” To kill a process, use the number 9. You can also use other numbers like 3, which means Quit, or 6, which means Abort. Mostly, though, you’ll be sticking with 9. You can also use the KILL command to kill all running processes, though you should probably never use this command. ..

killall 10 chrome

sudo ./process_name sudo ./process_name -u username ..

The 9 is sending a message to kill all processes instead of terminating them. This is useful if you can’t force quit a process or if you want to kill all processes associated with a specific name.

If you’re looking to kill a program on your computer, there are a few different ways to do it. This article is meant to give you more advanced methods for killing programs using the command line. If you have any questions about killing a program using the command line, post a comment and I’ll try to help. Enjoy!