How to stop process from BAT file

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So I have process I started from one bat file  How to stop it from another

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taskkill  F  IM notepad exe this is the best way to kill the task from task manager

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When you start a process from a batch file  it starts as a separate process with no hint towards the batch file that started it  since this would have finished running in the meantime  things like the parent process ID won t help you    If you know the process name  and it is unique among all running processes  you can use taskkill  like  IVlad suggests in a comment   If it is not unique  you might want to look into jobs  These terminate all spawned child processes when they are terminated

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As TASKKILL might be unavailable on some Home basic editions of windows here some alternatives   TSKILL processName   or  TSKILL PID   Have on mind that processName should not have the  exe suffix and is limited to 18 characters   Another option is WMIC    wmic Path win32 process Where  Caption Like  MyProcess exe   Call Terminate   wmic offer even more flexibility than taskkill  With wmic Path win32 process get you can see the available fileds you can filter

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To terminate a process you know the name of  try   taskkill  IM notepad exe   This will ask it to close  but it may refuse  offer to  save changes   etc   If you want to forcibly kill it  try   taskkill  F  IM notepad exe

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Here is how to kill one or more process from a  bat file   Step 1  Open a preferred text editor and create a new file   step 2  To kill one process use the  taskkill  command  with the   im  parameter that  specifies the image name of the process to be terminated  Example   taskkill  im examplename exe   To  force  kill a process use the   f  parameter which specifies that processes be forcefully terminated  Example   taskkill  f  im somecorporateprocess exe   To kill more than one process you rinse and repeat the first part of step 2  Example   taskkill  im examplename exe taskkill  im examplename1 exe taskkill  im examplename2 exe   or   taskkill  f  im examplename exe taskkill  f  im examplename1 exe taskkill  f  im examplename2 exe   step 3  Save your file to desired location with the  bat extension   step 4  click newly created bat file to run it

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Why don t you use PowerShell   Stop-Process -Name notepad   And if you are in a batch file   powershell -Command  Stop-Process -Name notepad  powershell -Command  Stop-Process -Id 4232

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