Windows – the difference between kill and taskkill commands in Windows Server

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There is two commands in Windows Server, kill and taskkill that seems to have similar functionality. But I want to know their exact differences and their usages.

Can anyone explain it?

Best Answer

As Greg said, Windows doesn't have a native kill command, PowerShell has a alias kill for Stop-Process. If your cmd.exe responses to kill you have some external command somewhere in your path.