Taskkill.exe is the executable file for Kill Process, the program for ending one or more computer or software tasks or processes. It is a command used operating systems to send signals for running processes more commonly known as termination of process, the exit process. The kill command sends signals to the system or process groups running in the machine, referencing by their designated numeric process IDs. Microsoft's command-line interpreter is Windows PowerShell, the predefined command alias of the Stop-Process called cmdlet. The taskkill.exe is used by Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7, with the same syntax taskkill /im . The process file is also contained in unsupported released versions of Windows Resource Kits available for the NT, 2000 and 2003 versions of Windows operating system. The most satisfactory version of the taskill.exe process is the Kill Version 3.5. GNU versions have been ported through Cygwin and run within the Unix environment subsystems that Microsoft Windows provides.

Most non-system processes that are running can be stopped because they are not involved in running your operating system. taskkill.exe. is used by Stop-Process, If you shut down taskkill.exe, it will likely start again at a later time either after you restart your computer or after an application start. To stop taskkill.exe, permanently you need to uninstall the application that runs this process which in this case is Stop-Process, from your system.

After uninstalling applications it is a good idea to scan you Windows registry for any left over traces of applications. Registry Reviver by ReviverSoft is a great tool for doing this.

The ReviverSoft experts have not yet reviewed taskkill.exe

A process usually a part of an installed application such as Stop-Process, or your operating system that is responsible for running in functions of that application. Some application require that they have processes running all the time so they can do things such as check for updates or notify you when you get an instant message. Some poorly written applications have many processes that run that may not be required and take up valuable processing power within your computer.

We have not received any complaint about this process having higher than normal impact on PC performance. If you have had bad experiences with it please let us know in a comment below and we will investigate it further.

The first thing you should do if taskkill.exe. is causing errors on your computer is to run a Windows registry scan with Registry Reviver If you are still seeing errors after this you should uninstall the program that taskkill.exe, belongs to, in this case Stop-Process