I tried this on Windows 10, but I assume it already works in Windows 7 / 8, and possibly even XP. Source, plus quite a few more examples / ideas: But the drawback is, as process IDs always change, that you can’t make a batch file that you’ll just have to click: you’ll need to look up the process ID every time. It’s nice when you have multiple instances of a program running, and you just want to kill a particular one (for instance just one browser tab that’s gotten out of control). If you want to keep the pre-exit confirmation, lose the /F: taskkill /IM calc.exe This book describes and shows how to use the Microsoft-supplied command interpreter cmd.exe and the associated commands, and how to write Windows batch. I did that for 2 programs, one of which doesn’t even freeze, but I wanted to skip the long exit process, as an unclean exit causes no issue for this program. If it’s always the same program causing issue, you can just put it in a batch file (.bat) and run it whenever you need. It will kill all processes from executable calc.exe, immediately. So I searched a little, and eventually found a way to kill a program instantly, skipping any pre-exit confirmation. A freeze a few times a year is slightly annoying, but a couple of freezes each week seriously got on my nerves. If you check Task Manager, there is no path to the file, unfortunately.

What Taskill does is end the processes as if you were manually doing it through Task Manager (by ending the process in the Processes Tab). This command has got options to kill a task/process either by using the process id or by the image file name. Try it without the entire path to the file. That got me thinking about maybe just one batchfile again but after the initial setup that file presents a 'Are you done yet' type question and simply waits for you to respond 'Yes'or 'No'. We can kill a process from GUI using Task manager.If you want to do the same from command line., then taskkill is the command you are looking for. The second shortcut would close FSX, do the Taskkills and restore the screen. It turns out that I have, at the moment, a couple of repeating offenders in that matter. The first shortcut would setup and start FSX. We’ve all had, at least a few times, some random program that would freeze and that for some reason the Windows Task Manager would fail to terminate in a timely manner.

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