Microsoft DOS tskill command

Updated: 09/15/2017 by Computer Hope

About tskill

Allows a user running Microsoft Windows XP home to kill a task from an MS-DOS prompt.

The tskill command is an external command that is available in the below Microsoft operating systems tskill.exe.

Tip: Windows XP professional or later versions of Windows should use the taskkill command.

TSKILL processid | processname [/SERVER:servername] [/ID:sessionid | /A] [/V]

processid	Process ID for the process to be terminated.
processname	Process name to be terminated.
/SERVER:servername	Server containing processID (default is current). /ID or /A must be specified when using processname and /SERVER
/ID:sessionid	End process running under the specified session.
/A	End process running under ALL sessions.
/V	Display information about actions being performed.

tskill notepad /V

Kills the open notepad task, if open and displays a message similar to: End Process(1328)