Task Manager

For those that are wondering why we don’t just close the window, we’re trying to forcibly close them without leaving any stragglers behind, which seems to happen all too often.

Kill Multiple Processes From the Command Line

taskkill /F /IM <processname.exe> /T

These parameters will forcibly kill any process matching the name of the executable that you specify. For instance, to kill all iexplore.exe processes, we’d use:

taskkill /F /IM iexplore.exe

Command Prompt taskkill

Create an Icon to Force Kill All iexplore.exe Processes

Since we don’t really want to drop to the command prompt every single time we want to recycle Internet Explorer or Chrome, we can setup an icon to do the work for us.

Right-click anywhere on the desktop and choose New \ Shortcut:

Create Shortcut

taskkill.exe /F /IM iexplore.exe /T

Create Shortcut Location

Shortcut Properties

Taskkill exe что это такое и как перезапустить проводник Windows 7

Now that you’ve learned this technique, you can use it for all sorts of other useful things as well.