The Task Killer In Windows XP!

[Dashken]

Hmm... seems like kill can't be used for remote pc as well.

I wonder why I cant seem to taskkill a task in a remote pc. I've already closed the firewall.

Peaz: taskkill can't force kill one of your program, is that what you mean? Hmm... I guess each has its pros and cons. One thing good about taskkill is, it's readily-available in all Windows XP.

[GermanJulian]

Taskkill works on remote machines, works for me
By the way you need to have admin rights on the remote machine!

another little trick I use is:
Freemem=Space(512000000)

which frees your memory. (be careful how much you free though)
Oh its a vbs script.

I would always use VB scripting to do anything with your PC and not dos commands. VB scripts are very very very easy and powerful:
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PS: I have no time I gotta do other VB scripts

the following code terminates notepad on a remote computer:
[code]
strComputer = "FullComputerName"
strDomain = "DOMAIN"
strUser = InputBox("Enter user name")
strPassword = InputBox("Enter password")
Set objSWbemLocator = CreateObject("WbemScripting.SWbemLocator")
Set objWMIService = objSWbemLocator.ConnectServer(strComputer, _
"root\CIMV2", _
strUser, _
strPassword, _
"MS_409", _
"ntlmdomain:" + strDomain)
Set colProcessList = objWMIService.ExecQuery _
("SELECT * FROM Win32_Process WHERE Name = 'notepad.exe'")
For Each objProcess in colProcessList
objProcess.Terminate()
Next
[/code]

you dont even need to write code its all on M$ (dont tell my boss)
all you need to do now is use Visual Studio, create a nice gui. Write a bit of code which gets all remote computers and your local machine. Create a dropdown with all computers.
A button which gets all running processes for that computer.
a tickbox and a KILL button.
1 day and your done

[Dashken]

Originally Posted by GermanJulian

Taskkill works on remote machines, works for me
By the way you need to have admin rights on the remote machine!

Yeah, I have admin rights, username and password as well. But doesn't seem to work.

Yeah, I like vbscript a lot. Used simple ones alot at work for creating shortcuts, editing registry, etc. and use Wscript.Shell to run it.

Thanks for your time and the codes.

[s p r a n k i k o]

I only use msconfig to turn off any tasks that I don't want to run.

Works fine for me, though I'm wondering if any of you use it too?

[zy]

i'm using msconfig all the time even on my friends laptops

[peaz]

Originally Posted by Dashken

Peaz: taskkill can't force kill one of your program, is that what you mean? Hmm... I guess each has its pros and cons. One thing good about taskkill is, it's readily-available in all Windows XP.

taskkill.exe is essentially similar to opening up the task manager and killing it from there. Some processes cannot be killed via that method. That's what i meant