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ps -ax will give you a listed sorted by PID and the path of the program. It’s a quick way to find the process you want to kill. Top will give you a list of processes with the PID and the program name also sorted by CPU usage. Two commands that come to mind are top and ps -ax.

If you are using the command line to kill a process, you can use the command line to find the process info also. However, that requires the GUI interface. There are some ways you can find this info. In order to kill a program, you either have to use the program name or the process ID. You have to run these in the terminal window. In OS X and Linux, you have two commands for killing processes: KILL and KILLALL. What I also like is the ability to use wildcards in TASKKILL. You can also use TASKKILL to remotely connect to another system and kill a process on that remote system. T is great because it will kill all child processes started by the specified process. If you want to kill using the process ID (PID), you have to use /PID instead of /IM. F means to forcefully terminate the process forcefully. For starters, you can kill a program by using the following command: taskkill /F /IM winword.exe If you want to have more control and options for killing a program in Windows, use TASKKILL. If you look at the help page for TASKKILL, you see what I mean: The second command, which has more options and is more powerful, is TASKKILL. So typically you would type the following command to be extra sure the process is killed: tskill /A winword

A tells the command to end the process running under all sessions. One thing to note is that most of the time that this command is used, it’s used with the /A parameter. You can to kill a program instantly without any questions.

This is pretty much true of all the commands I’m going to mention here as that’s kind of the point. I tried it out on an unsaved Word doc and it just disappeared when I ran this, no prompts to save the documents. That will kill Word and you will lose any unsaved data, so you have to be careful using it.