From: Mikel Lindsaar <raasdnil@...>
Date: 2008-01-18T00:05:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Kill Process by it's name

On Jan 18, 2008 12:54 AM, Agustin Ramos <aart85@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everybody, i'm working on Microsoft Windows XP, and i want to make a
> program to kill windows process by the name of the process, not by the PID,

I am not sure if it works on XP, but it definitely works on Windows Server 2003:

`taskkill /im excel.exe /f`

I use it to kill off zombie processes.

Warning though, this will kill ANYTHING that matches the image name of
excel.exe... that is, all copies running.

Regards

Mikel