Marko Apfel

Kill processes in bulk mode

A quick Windows command-line technique for stopping multiple processes at once.

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  1. Open PowerShell with elevated permissions and run get-process > C:\_temp\process.txt

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  2. Open process.txt in an editor with multi cursor capabilities, e.g. Visual Studio Code or _Notepad++`

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  3. Cut the content of ID column where ProcessName is your relevant process to kill

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  4. Put a taskkill /F /PID in front of all

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  5. Save it as batch, for instance as C:\_temp\kill-processes.bat

  6. Run the batch

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