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How to Kill a Program by Process Name Using Cmd in Windows 8? [Closed]

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How to Kill a Program by Process Name Using Cmd in Windows 8? [Closed]

it seems that whenever i open a program in windows 8, the process name is WWAHost.exe

i would like to be able to do something like TASKKILL /F /IM notepad.exe and terminate a specific process by name

if i kill WWAHost.exe then all open programs will die.

any ideas?

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You can kill the process and all its children (ie. all processes started by it) using the /t switch:

taskkill /f /t /im wwahost.exe

See the documentation for taskkill (ss64) and tskill (ss64) system utilities.

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