I think taskkill is what you're looking for. With it you can kill a running process by its ID or image name (name of the .exe file).
You can read a detailed usage explanation on this page: http://www.computerhope.com/taskkill.htm
Answer from Sledge Hammer on Stack OverflowI think taskkill is what you're looking for. With it you can kill a running process by its ID or image name (name of the .exe file).
You can read a detailed usage explanation on this page: http://www.computerhope.com/taskkill.htm
TaskKill should do the job. you can write in the exact name of the task to kill, i.e. to kill all firefox processes
C:\>Taskkill /IM firefox.exe /F
or you can check the PID of specific task by writing Tasklist, and then kill the task by mentioning its PID i.e.
C:\>Taskkill /PID 26356 /F
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Nodejs keeps running on the background and I can't stop it
Is WSL2 always running in the background?
How to run a process in the background?
I think you're a bit misled, Command by default spawns programs in the background. What blocks (holds up your program) is the wait function. The wait function's purpose is to hold up your program until the child process is done. If you're running a command in the background, try simply not calling wait.
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Ctrl + C should stop a program running from the command prompt, similar to Linux.
If that doesn't work try to force kill a process from the command prompt, using the following command:
taskkill /F /IM process.exe
/F will force termination of the process, and /IM means you're going to provide the running executable that you want to end, thus process.exe is the process to end.
Try to use Alt + F4.
I was in a similar situation where exit() and Ctrl+Z were the commands used to escape.
Typically entering exit (or logout) will provide you with assisting information, in my case I had the following output:
Use exit() or Ctrl-Z plus Return to exit