You may find yourself in need of a quick and easy way to force quit lagging or unresponsive programs when using Windows 10 operating system. In addition to Task Manager, you can use the Command Prompt to easily end programs you no longer want to use.
Open CMD, Run as Administrator
Type tasklist in CMD box. Enter
You should see this:
Find the exe or program you want to force quit (image goes here)
Type Taskkill /F /im [program name] in Administrator Command Prompt box
For our example, we want to force quit the Twisted Brush art software:
Taskkill /F /im tbpaintstudio.exe, click enter
Look for the success message
You will receive this error if attempting to quit a process that is no longer active
Alternate ways to quit a program in Windows 10
End task via Task Manager
Locate the unresponsive program under background processes
Open Task Manager, click more details,
Look for the program name under background processe
How to activate Task Manager
Press and hold CTRL+ALT+DEL, choose Task Manager
Right click on your taskbar, select Task Manager
Click into search box and type Task Manager, Run as Administrator
Click Start and R to open Run box, type tskmgr to open Task Manager
Conclusion
In this tutorial you learned how to force quit a process on Windows 10 using the taskkill command and task manager.
