XP: kill a Windows process from the command line with taskkill

The ability to perform tasks from a system’s command line allows those tasks to be used in batch files. This recipe describes several uses of taskkill to terminate Windows processes.

If you know the name of a process to kill, for example notepad.exe, use the following command from a command prompt to end it:

taskkill /IM notepad.exe

This will cause the program to terminate gracefully, asking for confirmation if there are unsaved changes. To forcefully kill the same process, add the /F option to the command line. Be careful with the /F option as it will terminate all matching processes without confirmation.
To kill a single instance of a process, specify its process id (PID). For example, if the desired process has a PID of 827, use the following command to kill it:

taskkill /PID 827

Using filters, a variety of different patterns can be used to specify the processes to kill. For example, the following filter syntax will forcefully kill all processes owned by the user Quinn:

taskkill /F /FI "USERNAME eq Quinn"

The following table shows the available filters and their use.

Filter Name Valid Operators Valid Value(s)
----------- --------------- --------------
STATUS eq ne RUNNING | NOT RESPONDING
IMAGENAME eq ne Image name
PID eq ne gt lt ge le PID value
SESSION eq ne gt lt ge le Session number.
CPUTIME eq ne gt lt ge le CPU time in the format
of hh:mm:ss.
MEMUSAGE eq ne gt lt ge le Memory usage in KB
USERNAME eq ne User name in [domain\]user
format
MODULES eq ne DLL name
SERVICES eq ne Service name
WINDOWTITLE eq ne Window title

eq: equals ne: not equal
gt: greater than lt: less than
gt: greater than or equal le: less than or equal

 

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Error on install Microsoft Office 2007 on Windows Xp

The windows installer service can not update one or more protected windows that error message that appears when I install microsoft office 2007, this message pops up when I had to install windows xp using flasdisk. But if I install Windows from a CD of this error does not appear.

I'm looking for the problem by looking at the log there are poorer error message "Error 1933. The Windows Installer service cannot update one or more protected Windows files. The Windows Installer service can not update one or more protected Windows files. SFP Error: 1223.  List of protected files:\r\nc:\program files\common files\microsoft shared\web server extensions\40\bin\fp4autl.dll”. SFP Error: 1223. List of protected files: \ r \ nc: \ program files \ common files \ microsoft shared \ web server extensions \ 40 \ bin \ fp4autl.dll ". So basically microsoft office 2007 installer can not find the file so that the install process stops and the following is the solution if you experience an error like this:

1. Open the windows XP cd installer then enter the directory "i386" and locate the file "FP40EXT.CAB". 
2. Copy the file to your hard drive then use Winrar.
3.  From the extract was locate the file "fp4Autl.dll" 
4. Then  copy the file to the directory C: \ program files \ common files \ microsoft shared \ web server extensions \ 40 \ bin.
5.  Repeat your Microsoft Office installation process and now the error did not reappear.

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