Stopping Processes with kill
Sometimes a process becomes unresponsive or you just need to stop it. That's what the kill command is for.
Terminating by PID
To stop a process, you need its PID (Process ID), which you can find using ps.
Command Prompt
PID TTY TIME CMD
3456 pts/0 00:00:05 node
C:\Users\User>ps
Knowledge Check
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References
These Microsoft Learn and Windows documentation links provide authoritative details for the commands used in this article.