To kill background process in windows 2000 ?

ijack December 16, 2010 at 05:05:04

Download pskill from http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/...

mickliq December 16, 2010 at 10:59:51

You can either install CCleaner-Slim & use Tools > Startup: http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/bu... or download MSCONFIG: http://www.windowsmaven.com/Downloa...

Thanks a lot ijak and mickliq for helping me i downloaded and its working properly with the pskill utiliy i got one more problem... The utility is killing all the instances of .exe with name i specified [means the name which i passed to the utiliy] but i need to kill the process which is associated to my application not the other. for that what i am doing is i am just running a batch script while closing my application but in my system there is one more application with the same name and it also creates the background process with the same name so when the script runs its killing all the process with that name is there any way to kill the most recently created single process??

ijack December 17, 2010 at 05:21:12

Tricky. You can specify the PID when killing the process, but how you find out the PID of the process you want to close is another matter. Do the background process and the one that you want to run have to have the same name? Would it be possible to rename one of them (making a copy of the program if it's actually the same executable) so that you can uniquely kill it?

mickliq December 17, 2010 at 06:36:28

Install the MSCONFIG utility that I posted a link to, then follow these instrcutions on how to use it: http://netsquirrel.com/msconfig/msc...

ijack December 17, 2010 at 09:25:46

I'm not quite clear how you use msconfig to kill a running process, particularly on a remote machine. Can you elaborate? I thought msconfig addressed an entirely different problem (disabling start-up and background processes).

Thanks to all I just renamed the background process name and then used the pskill now its working fine am not getting any kind of registry problems now ....