Replacing Taskkill with PowerShell

Stopping a Process with PowerShell

To stop a process, such as Chrome, in PowerShell, you can use the Stop-Process cmdlet. This is equivalent to using taskkill in the Command Prompt. Here’s how you do it:

stop-process -Name "chrome" -Force

Using the Command in a Batch File

If you’re working with batch files and need to incorporate PowerShell commands, you can do so with the following syntax:

powershell -command stop-process -Name "chrome" -Force

Listing Processes

To list all the currently running processes, you can use the Get-Process cmdlet in PowerShell:

get-process

Using Wildcards

PowerShell allows the use of wildcards for matching process names, which can be very handy. For example, to stop all processes that start with “chrome”, you can use:

Get-process –name "chrome*" | stop-process