How to Use Command Prompt to a Kill Process

There are various tricks to kill a process on a computer. For example, click on cross of Windows Explorer, Use Task Manager and Command prompt. Sometime, a frozen program may not terminate if you attempt to kill it from Task Manager. In this case, we can use Command Prompt to kill process. Command Prompt is able to kill a process that Task Manager can not kill. So let’s start that how to use Command prompt to kill a process.

STEP1

Open Windows Task Manager

Open Windows Task Manager by Right-Click on Task Bar or by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+ESC. Locate in the task manager which program is not responding or ir frozen. For example, in this case, Google Chrome is not responding:

STEP2

Locate Problematic Program Name and Extension

Click on Processes & note down the problematic program’s name with its extension. Here, it is Chrome.exe whieh is not responding. Always remember extension of  problematic program:

STEP3

Search CMD.exe in Start Menu

Click on Start Menu and type CMD in search box. Click on Windows CMD program to open it:

STEP4

Launch CMD Program

Right-Click on CMD Program and select Run as administrator:

STEP5

Kill the Process

Type this command line to kill the process: taskkill /f /im “Chrome.exe and press Enter.

STEP6

Kill Process Successfully Done

We can see Kill Process command executed successfully & has been completed:

The process has been killed now. We can re-launch Google Chrome or any other application now. It will work find just as before.

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