Using the kill command on Linux.

Killing rogue programs in Linux The kill command included by default with the Linux suite of commands may be used to terminate a process by passing kill a process ID (PID). By default, kill just tells the process to die, but if the process has made previous arrangements with the…

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Killing a running task in Windows 7.

Killing a running task UNIX style in Windows 7 is very easy indeed, the tasklist command makes this just as easy as it is in UNIX/Linux.Just type tasklist in the command prompt and it will display a list of running processes. Then look for the PID of the process you…

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