Comments on: Kill All Running Apps .BAT – Repair Tool of the Week

By: John Bats

John Bats — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:44:17 +0000

Great list of top rated bats for sure!

By: Logan Odell

Logan Odell — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 02:36:51 +0000

@Perry

Tasklist is a command that is not available in Windows XP Home( Available in XP Pro + ).

Google “tasklist for xp home” and you can find an available download. IIRC, you’ll need to modify the .bat file to run tasklist.exe instead of running tasklist.

By: Perry Schjolin

Perry Schjolin — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:00:47 +0000

I’ve tried kill.bat on two computers and I get the same error message:

‘Tasklist’ is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
Press any key to continue.

Am I missing something?

By: Phil

Phil — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 18:29:01 +0000

I was trying to run a .bat using KillProcess and relative paths (to run from the thumb drive)
So far this is what I got (you can copy this to notepad and save as .bat)

“\PortableApps\KillProcess\KillProcess.exe \PortableApps\KillProcess\CleanXP.lst silent”

Still haven´t managed to get to work the “reverse kill list” (kill everything except included process in the list). Maybe it´s just not supported from command line.

By: Methical

Methical — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:59:46 +0000

Your welcome ! Here it is in .vbs format:

http://www.technibble.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10254

By: Bryce W

Bryce W — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:01:33 +0000

Jimmy James, you are right. Updated the post.

By: Jimmy James

Jimmy James — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:51:13 +0000

Note this will only kill processes running that were started by the user, meaning it won’t kill anything from the system resulting in a BSOD.