How to stop all instances of the process in PowerShell?
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13-09-2020 - |
Question
How to stop all instances of the process in PowerShell?
To stop running all the instances of the process in PowerShell Stop-Process command is used. For example, in the below example, we have two running instances of notepad.exe process.
Command
PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Get-Process notepad
Output
PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Get-Process notepad Handles NPM(K) PM(K) WS(K) CPU(s) Id SI ProcessName ------- ------ ----- ----- ------ -- -- ----------- 228 13 3160 13448 0.14 15564 1 notepad 228 14 3148 13668 0.17 22644 1 notepad
To stop all the instances of the running process, below command will be used.
Stop-Process -Name notepad
You can also pipeline the Stop-Process to end the process.
Get-Process -Name notepad | Stop-Process
To stop multiple processes, provide different process names separated by comma (,)
Get-Process SkypeApp,notepad |Stop-Process -Confirm:$false
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