MS-DOS and Windows command line tskill command

Updated: 05/21/2018 by Computer Hope

The tskill command allows a user running Microsoft Windows XP home to kill a task from an MS-DOS prompt.

Availability

Tskill is an external command that is available for the following Microsoft operating systems tskill.exe.

Tip

Windows XP Professional or later versions should use the taskkill command.

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

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

tskill notepad /V

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