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KILL - Terminate Processes

Stop processes using their ID.

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KILL - Terminate Processes

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

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References

These Microsoft Learn and Windows documentation links provide authoritative details for the commands used in this article.

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