Killing a process which runs with a specific commandline using taskkill command

Question

The process I'm trying to kill is:

rundll32.exe aeinv.dll,UpdateSoftwareInventory

However, I don't want to kill all instances of rundll32.exe, only the ones started with the "aeinv.dll,UpdateSoftwareInventory" commandline.

Answer 1

I'd do the following: In PowerShell use the command: Get-WmiObject Win32_Process -Filter "name = 'rundll32.exe'" | Select-Object CommandLine,ProcessId

This will give you back a list of all of the rundll32.exe processes running along with their CLI arguments.

Then use the ProcessID of that particular one to kill it, whether via Task Manager, Stop-Process -Id <ProcessID> in PowerShell, or taskkill -PID <ProcessID> in an administrative command prompt.

Hope that helps.