Ever have one of those days where programs just arent cooperating?

You try terminating a program, but it doesnt respond?

PowerShell can give you some extra fire power on those days.

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How Do I Stop A Program In PowerShell?

The long command name stop-process can be shortened to kill.

If you know the numeric process that youre wanting to stop, you’re free to enter it.

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Next, we need to know the name of the process we want to stop.

you might locate the name of the processes by starting task manager and reviewing the processes.

Notice that Google Chrome is listed as chrome, while the calculator is listed as calc.

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to get to stop the calculator we would key in:

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