How to Kill process on Remote computer?

**Anilrgowda** · 27-Nov-2007, 02:16 AM

Question: There is a process running on one of the XP Pro computers on my network that is causing havoc. This pc is 50 miles away and I can access it through a vpn but no one is available at the site.

How can I kill a process on a remote machine without having to install some software first. The computer is a member of Active Directory.

**Anilrgowda** · 27-Nov-2007, 02:17 AM

You already have all you need on your XP machine:
Open a command prompt and use
tasklist /s remotemachine
to get the name of the process or the PID you want to kill (if you don't know it yet), then use
taskkill /s remotemachine /im processname
(or taskkill /s remotemachine /pid processPID if you want to kill "per PID")

27-Nov-2007, 02:16 AM	#1 (permalink)
Anilrgowda Administrator Posts: 18,715 Join Date: Jan 2006 Rep Power: 10 IM:	How to Kill process on Remote computer? Question: There is a process running on one of the XP Pro computers on my network that is causing havoc. This pc is 50 miles away and I can access it through a vpn but no one is available at the site. How can I kill a process on a remote machine without having to install some software first. The computer is a member of Active Directory. ------------------

27-Nov-2007, 02:17 AM	#2 (permalink)
Anilrgowda Administrator Posts: 18,715 Join Date: Jan 2006 Rep Power: 10 IM:	Re: How to Kill process on Remote computer? You already have all you need on your XP machine: Open a command prompt and use tasklist /s remotemachine to get the name of the process or the PID you want to kill (if you don't know it yet), then use taskkill /s remotemachine /im processname (or taskkill /s remotemachine /pid processPID if you want to kill "per PID") ------------------

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