killall in Windows
by Eirik Tenold
Recently I ran into a serious annoyance while using a Windows computer at work. Something triggered a cascade of processes that crashed and spawned other Dr Watson-threads. This bugged down my computer enough to be pain in the ass, and I didn’t want to use the reset button on my computer, so I opened the Task Manager and looked for something that resembled killall from Unix. No such luck.
Once more Google provided me with a solution. How-to Geek had written an article about the taskkill utility in Windows:
taskkill /F /IM <processname.exe> /T