page_title: Kill (command)
section_title: Microsoft Windows and ReactOS
hierarchical_section_title: Kill (command) / Implementations / Microsoft Windows and ReactOS
caption_attribution_description: English: Taskkill on Prompt Command Português: Taskkill no Prompt de comando
context_page_description: In computing, kill is a command that is used in several popular operating systems to send signals to running processes.
context_section_description: In Microsoft's command-line interpreter Windows PowerShell, kill is a predefined command alias for the Stop-Process cmdlet.
  Microsoft Windows XP, Vista and 7 include the command taskkill to terminate processes. The usual syntax for this command is taskkill /im "IMAGENAME". An "unsupported" version of kill was included in several releases of the Microsoft Windows Resource Kits available for Windows 98.
  GNU versions of kill have been ported via Cygwin and run inside of the Unix environment subsystem that Microsoft Windows Services for UNIX provides (Microsoft acquired Windows Services for Unix wholesale via their purchase of Softway Systems and their Interix product on September 17, 1999).
  The ReactOS implementation is based on the Windows variant. It was developed by Andrew Riedi, Andrew Nguyen, and He Yang. It is licensed under the GPLv2.1  or later.
caption: The taskkill command on Microsoft Windows
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