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WinXp taskkill command?
Name: bighomer Date: December 13, 2007 at 12:37:25 Pacific OS: XP CPU/Ram: 384 Product: Dell Inspiron 5100
Comment:
This all started when I tried to create my first batch file, but forget that for now. In the command window, I type [taskkill /F /IM notepad.exe] without the [] of course. It says 'taskkill' is not recognized as an internal or external command, etc, etc. I thought it was a native winxp command. What gives?
Name: XpUser Date: December 13, 2007 at 12:50:38 Pacific
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Yes it's a native Win XP command only when you are running XP Pro. It is not included in XP Home Edition.
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Response Number 2
Name: bighomer Date: December 13, 2007 at 12:53:08 Pacific
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Oh...bummer. Thx for the help.
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Response Number 3
Name: wanderer Date: December 13, 2007 at 13:45:06 Pacific
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You kill a batch file by doing a Control-C in the batch window.
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Response Number 4
Name: bighomer Date: December 13, 2007 at 15:06:21 Pacific
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No, no. I'm making a batch file to kill certain processes. They have to be run on my other login name (three separate SYSTEM processes run by AVG, among others), but I don't want all that stuff slowing down the system on my profile. And finally I met with some measure of success. For those of you who care to know, there's another appkiller, tskill, built into xp home. Command line: tskill notepad {no exe}. Closed out notepad. Not sure if it'll work on SYSTEM processes yet but I hope so...
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Response Number 5
Name: XpUser Date: December 13, 2007 at 17:09:16 Pacific
Name: wanderer Date: December 13, 2007 at 19:18:55 Pacific
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why kill the process when you can prevent it from starting?
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Response Number 7
Name: bighomer Date: December 16, 2007 at 13:38:03 Pacific
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Because I want these processes to run on one of my user profiles. I just don't want it to run on my other profile. can't get tskill to kill SYSTEM type processes. I didn't want to uninstall the damn thing but I don't want to have to open taskmanager on my profile and right-click...end process...right-click...end process.
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