I have 3 instances of application running from different places. All processes have similar names.
How can I kill process that was launched from specific place?
You can get the application path:
Get-Process | Where-Object {$_.Path -like "*something*"} | Stop-Process -WhatIf
That will work for the local machine only. To terminate remote processes:
Get-WmiObject Win32_Process -Filter "ExecutablePath LIKE '%something%'" -ComputerName server1 | Invoke-WmiMethod -Name Terminate
I would like to slightly improve Shay Levy's answer, as it didn't work work well on my setup (version 4 of powershell)
Get-Process | Where-Object {$_.Path -like "*something*"} | Stop-Process -Force -processname {$_.ProcessName}
You can take a look at the MainModule property inside of the Process class (which can be invoked via powershell).
foreach (Process process in Process.GetProcesses())
{
if (process.MainModule.FileName == location)
{
process.Kill();
}
}
I'd also consider the possible exceptions that can occur while calling this code. This might occur if you're trying to access processes that are no longer present (killed since the last time GetProcess was called) or processes for while you do not have permissions.
Try this:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee177004.aspx
Stop-Process -processname notepad
The below command kills processes wherein "something" is part of the path or is a command line parameter. It also proves useful for terminating powershell scripts such as powershell -command c:\my-place\something.ps1 running something.ps1 from place c:\my-place:
gwmi win32_process | Where-Object {$_.CommandLine -like "*something*"} | % { "$(Stop-Process $_.ProcessID)" }
The solution works locally on my 64bit Windows 10 machine.
Related
I'm trying to write use a script as a workaround for a software bug for my org where the symptom is a specific PID will use endless threads. I want the script to kill a single PID (PID since there will be more than one with the process name) if it is using more than X threads. I'm testing with Chrome since it is easy to spawn multiple processes. I've been able to piece together a script for listing processes and thread usage but not sure how to then pipe/feed that into stopping the process. eg:
Get-Process -processname chrome |
Select-Object ID, #{Name='ThreadCount';Expression ={$_.Threads.Count}} |
foreach
if ($_.ThreadCount -gt 30) {stop-process -Force}
Thanks in advance
Use Where-Object to filter the processes of interest and pipe them to Stop-Process:
Get-Process chrome |
Where-Object { $_.Threads.Count -ge 30 } |
Stop-Process -Force
I have a remote access program that does not clean up after itself after it is closed. In Task Manager, I oftentimes find 5 to 10 instances of the program running. For instance:
XYZ.exe
XYZ.exe
XYZ.exe
XYZ.exe
XYZ.exe
I have a simple Powershell script to stop these processes, but the problem is I want to close n-1 out of n processes.
> Stop-Process -Force -Name XYZ*
kills n out of n processes.
Is there a way to kill all processes of a program while leaving open the newest (e.g. XYZ.exe #5)?
Use Get-Process to discover all matching processes ahead of time, then simply remove one of them before killing the rest:
Get-Process -Name XYZ* |Select -Skip 1 |Stop-Process -Force
Try this: it closes all non responding processes
Get-Process -name XYZ.exe| Where-Object -FilterScript {$_.Responding -eq $false} | Stop-Process
I have a pretty neat mess of batch/python scripts that install a program called MATRIS, followed by about 15 exe updates.
Around 11 of these updates open a window telling me the that the update was successful.
Now it would be really fun to run a batch or powershell script which closes all of these windows for me.
The last thing I tried was Get-Process | Where-Object {$_.Path -like "MatrisInstaller.APCIPLUS"} | Stop-Process -WhatIf
I wasn't sure if it was the name as read in task manager, or like the title of the window, but I tried both.
Please note that a couple of these are (32 bit) - I'm not sure if that would impact the script.
I was able to run tasklist followed by kill {PID} but PIDs change: I'm not sure how to script it.
Please reply if you need any clarification, I've historically been poor at wording my questions.
In your example, Path is pointing to the executable file on disk, so while possible to use (if it is consistent), it won't match the name you find in the processes tab of Task Manager. Typically, people will use the name as shown on the Details tab of Task manager. For example, with Outlook on my system, these three possibilities are:
Path: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office16\OUTLOOK.EXE
Processes tab: Microsoft Outlook
Details tab: outlook.exe
So, you need a command like this:
Get-Process | Where Name -eq 'Outlook' | Stop-Process
or, better:
Get-Process -Name 'Outlook' | Stop-Process
Note that PowerShell expects you to remove the '.exe' you see in Task manager.
EDIT: Additional technique
If you know the names of the processes, then you can simplify your script by doing something like this:
$processList = "Process1","Process2","Process3" # Add all process names to the list
$processList |
ForEach-Object {
Get-Process -Name $_ | Stop-Process
}
You were almost there, just need to change "Path" to "ProcessName" like so:
Get-Process | Where-Object {$_.ProcessName -like "MatrisInstaller.APCIPLUS"} | Stop-Process -WhatIf
I am trying to stop multiple chrome instances in one row through powershell but get a strange behaviour :
Get-Process -Name chrome | stop-process $_
Returns an error:
Cannot link paramter Id because it is null.
But I have 8 processes running, and I can issue a stop-process on the first one.
So I do not understand what's going on. (Windows 7)
Any ideas ?
Just pipe Get-Process cmdlet it to the Stop-Process and omit the $_:
Get-Process -Name chrome | stop-process
I have a following problem:
I'm in need of a code that will close all running process from a given path on a remote machine.
So far I've found and came up with those 2 lines but none of them actually work.
Get-Process | Where-Object {$_.Path -like "\\$computername\C$\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe Reader 10.0\Reader\**"} | Stop-Process -Force
This is the second line I've found but still does not want to work with me :)
Get-WmiObject Win32_Process -Filter "ExecutablePath LIKE '\\$computername\C$\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe Reader 10.0\Reader\'" -ComputerName $computername | Invoke-WmiMethod -Name Terminate
I will be happy to get some advice. Belive that this is something rather simple to do..I hope that is.. :)
Something like this should work:
(Get-WmiObject Win32_Process -ComputerName $computerName | ?{ $_.ExecutablePath -like "*Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe Reader 10.0\Reader*" }).Terminate()
You might have to tweak the "like" expression, however.
Another way to approach this is to run that command local to the machine with PSRemoting.
Invoke-Command $computername -script {
Get-Process | Where-Object {$_.Path -like "c:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe Reader 10.0\Reader\*"} | Stop-Process -Force
}