How to list and kill running processes via the command line
C:\>tasklist Image Name PID Session Name Session# Mem Usage ========================= ======== ================ =========== ============ System Idle Process 0 Services 0 24 K System 4 Services 0 300 K smss.exe 228 Services 0 1,248 K csrss.exe 312 Services 0 4,436 K csrss.exe 352 Console 1 3,880 K wininit.exe 360 Services 0 4,312 K winlogon.exe 400 Console 1 4,204 K services.exe 448 Services 0 10,676 K lsass.exe 456 Services 0 13,076 K lsm.exe 464 Services 0 7,416 K svchost.exe 560 Services 0 9,324 K svchost.exe 640 Services 0 9,380 K LogonUI.exe 716 Console 1 14,288 K svchost.exe 732 Services 0 12,680 K svchost.exe 776 Services 0 44,436 K svchost.exe 844 Services 0 10,712 K svchost.exe 908 Services 0 15,060 K svchost.exe 948 Services 0 17,340 K svchost.exe 320 Services 0 11,552 K spoolsv.exe 280 Services 0 14,456 K svchost.exe 1040 Services 0 9,156 K svchost.exe 1064 Services 0 9,200 K inetinfo.exe 1084 Services 0 13,232 K MsDtsSrvr.exe 1184 Services 0 27,668 K mqsvc.exe 1304 Services 0 8,092 K msmdsrv.exe 1460 Services 0 47,452 K sqlservr.exe 1484 Services 0 272,744 K svchost.exe 1560 Services 0 6,148 K svchost.exe 1604 Services 0 2,856 K sqlwriter.exe 1644 Services 0 6,324 K svchost.exe 1684 Services 0 11,488 K SQLAGENT.EXE 2060 Services 0 23,272 K conhost.exe 2080 Services 0 2,732 K fdlauncher.exe 2304 Services 0 3,796 K svchost.exe 2340 Services 0 9,732 K fdhost.exe 2464 Services 0 5,136 K conhost.exe 2476 Services 0 2,608 K svchost.exe 2244 Services 0 4,520 K msdtc.exe 2228 Services 0 7,544 K C:\>taskkill /pid 2228 SUCCESS: Sent termination signal to the process with PID 2228.