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The title pretty much says it all. This .BAT file will kill all currently running apps on a system that the user started with the exception of a few locked Windows processes and some antivirus products. This comes in handy when you are working on a system that has too many processes running and thus slowing it down; often to the point where its difficult to do any work on it.

Being a BAT file, this script is obviously highly customizable. It works on a “if the process is not in this list, then kill it” system; so you can add processes to the list that you do not to be killed such as the menu for your USB drive applications or Firefox.

For information on how to add processes to it, check out the official page.

Screenshots:

Killbat

Downloads:

Download from Technibble (right click, save as) – 4kb
Download from Official Site – 4kb

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Special thanks to the forum member Methical for recommending this one.

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  • Jimmy James says:
    10/15/2009 at 09:51

    Note this will only kill processes running that were started by the user, meaning it won’t kill anything from the system resulting in a BSOD.

  • Methical says:
    10/15/2009 at 19:59

    Your welcome ! Here it is in .vbs format:

    https://www.technibble.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10254

  • Phil says:
    10/17/2009 at 13:29

    I was trying to run a .bat using KillProcess and relative paths (to run from the thumb drive)
    So far this is what I got (you can copy this to notepad and save as .bat)

    “\PortableApps\KillProcess\KillProcess.exe \PortableApps\KillProcess\CleanXP.lst silent”

    Still haven´t managed to get to work the “reverse kill list” (kill everything except included process in the list). Maybe it´s just not supported from command line.

  • Perry Schjolin says:
    11/04/2009 at 00:00

    I’ve tried kill.bat on two computers and I get the same error message:

    ‘Tasklist’ is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
    Press any key to continue.

    Am I missing something?

  • Logan Odell says:
    12/05/2009 at 21:36

    @Perry

    Tasklist is a command that is not available in Windows XP Home( Available in XP Pro + ).

    Google “tasklist for xp home” and you can find an available download. IIRC, you’ll need to modify the .bat file to run tasklist.exe instead of running tasklist.

  • John Bats says:
    02/08/2010 at 11:44

    Great list of top rated bats for sure!

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