How to kill a specific task in windows 2012 server

Question

This is for windows 2012 server. I am trying to kill a specific task running under cmd window.

In this specific case I want to kill SWIMAUX. I have a command prompt open and every time I use taskkill command I get the following error. How can I kill that task?

C:\Siemens\hot_cold_backups>taskkill /f /fi "imagename eq SWIMAUX"

INFO: No tasks running with the specified criteria.


C:\Siemens\hot_cold_backups>taskkill /f /fi "services eq SWIMAUX"

INFO: No tasks running with the specified criteria.

Answer 1

You need to either specify the image name for the process you want to kill or the window title.

If the window has a specific title, then you can use the WINDOWTITLE parameter of the taskkill command

TASKKILL /F /FI "WINDOWTITLE eq SWIMAUX"

To find the image name of a process:

1. Open task manager and right click on the process you want to kill, and select Go to details
2. Find the highlighted executable and use it in your taskkill command, eg. taskkill /f /t /im process.exe