How to find and kill process in Windows

How to find and kill process in Windows

How to find PID of the Process:

Open the Command Prompt or click on run and type cmd.

Type tasklist /v

It should give you the list of processes and their PID’s.

Otherwise,  press Ctrl+Alt+Delete. It will open the Task Manager.

In the  Task Manager go to View -> Select Columns.. and select PID.

How to Kill Process in Windows:

If you know the name of the process then open the Command Prompt and type:

taskkill /IM notepad.exe

If you know the PID of the process, type following command in the Command Prompt:

taskkill /PID 827

If you want to all the Processes owned by a specific user, let say you want to kill all the process for the user ABCDEF,type the following in your Command Prompt:

taskkill /F /FI "USERNAME eq ABCDEF"