Any way to write a Windows bat file to kill processes

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Every time I turn on my company-owned development machine  I have to kill 10  processes using the Task Manager or any other process management app just to get decent performance out of my IDE   Yes  these are processes from programs that my company installs on my machine for security and compliance  What I d like to do is have a  bat file or script of some kind with which I can kill the processes in question     Does anybody know how to do this

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Here I wrote an example command that you can paste in your cmd command line prompt and is written for chrome.exe.

FOR /F "tokens=2 delims= " %P IN ('tasklist /FO Table /M "chrome*" /NH') DO (TASKKILL /PID %P)

The for just takes all the PIDs listed on the below tasklist command and executes TASKKILL /PID on every PID

tasklist /FO Table /M "chrome*" /NH

If you use the for in a batch file just use %%P instead of %P

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You can do this with  taskkill   With the  IM parameter  you can specify image names    Example   taskkill  im somecorporateprocess exe   You can also do this to  force  kill   Example   taskkill  f  im somecorporateprocess exe   Just add one line per process you want to kill  save it as a  bat file  and add in your startup directory  Problem solved   If this is a legacy system  PsKill will do the same

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taskkill  f  im  devenv exe    this will forcibly kill the pid with the exe name  devenv exe   equivalent to -9 on the nix y kill command

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Download PSKill  Write a batch file that calls it for each process you want dead  passing in the name of the process for each

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Please find the below logic where it works on the condition   If we simply call taskkill  im applicationname exe  it will kill only if this process is running  If this process is not running  it will throw an error   So as to check before takskill is called  a check can be done to make sure  execute taskkill will be executed only if the process is running  so that it won t throw error   tasklist  fi  imagename eq applicationname exe   find      gt  nul  if errorlevel 1 taskkill  f  im  applicationname exe

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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 its SQL-like matchers  With wmic Path win32 process get you can see the available fileds you can filter  and   can be used as a wildcard

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I m assuming as a developer  you have some degree of administrative control over your machine   If so  from the command line  run msconfig exe   You can remove many processes from even starting  thereby eliminating the need to kill them with the above mentioned solutions

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Use Powershell   Built in cmdlets for managing processes   Examples here  hard way   here built in  and here  more

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Get Autoruns from Mark Russinovich  the Sysinternals guy that discovered the Sony Rootkit    Best software I ve ever used for cleaning up things that get started automatically

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