taskkill.exe and PsTools
I was looking for a way to kill running tasks from the command line in XP when I came across information about the command line utility taskkill.exe . This does the trick but isn't available in XP Home. It will work with XP Home however. I found an unofficial link to taskkill.exe here . Alternatively you might want to check out another officially downloadable Microsoft utility called PsKill . PsKill will do the same job as taskkill.exe. At the following link you'll find a description of PsKill and a download link for the PsTools suite that contains PsKill . http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896683.aspx [ thanks for the tip Anonymous ;-) ] If you're still determined to proceed with taskkill.exe, Here is Microsoft's documentation on taskkill.exe and here are some usage examples from Computerhope .