Using taskkill to remotely kill processes
Consider, you are unable to login to a server due to not sufficient resource available in the server. And you want to avoid server reboot to resolve this issue. You run pslist from remote server and see lots of processes running with the name " kinconfg.exe" Below is the command to kill remotely the duplicate processes and free-up resources on the problematic server: taskkill /s servername /im kinconfg.exe SUCCESS: The process "kinconfg.exe" with PID 5900 has been terminated. SUCCESS: The process "kinconfg.exe" with PID 10416 has been terminated. After this command is executed, able to login to the server.