Command line tip #12- shut down hung programs
It’s been quite a while since I gave a straight command line tip but here’s one for quickly closing a program that gets stuck or frozen. You can use the Task Manager (described here) but that can take a fairly long time. With the command “taskkill”, you can force a quick shutdown of a hung program. The details of this command are discussed on a page at my command line site and the following tip is from there.
To quickly shut down a non-responding program, open the command line and enter:
taskkill /f /fi "status eq not responding"
For convenience, you can create a batch file with this command. Simply enter the command given above in Notepad and save it as “close_stuck_programs.bat” . Be sure that Notepad does not tack on the extension TXT. Place the file on the desktop or somewhere convenient. If a program hangs up, double-click this file to close the program down.
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