When you are looking the task manager, sometimes you can see a dozen of iexplore.exe processes listed there. Clicking the End Process button for each item will steal your precious hour. So we should find a method to kill them all the processes in one step.

The solution to above problem is to use a quick command line utility which will kill all the processes by their name and we can make the task much easier for the user by creating a re-usable icon which will kill all processes in a single step. This same technique will work for any application like Google Chrome, which opens a dozen processes.

Steps to Kill Multiple Processes From the Command Line

For this the first thing you should do is to open up a command prompt, and you can use the taskkill command which has the following syntax:

“taskkill /F /IM <processname.exe>/T ”

The above command will forcibly kill any process which has a name matching with the name of the executable that you specify. For example, you can kill all the iexplore.exe processes by using the command

“taskkill /F /IM iexplore.exe/T”

The command is really simple and the processes will be killed immediately.

You should note the fact that Windows Vista users can kill only “normal mode” applications from a regular command prompt. For killing an application which is running as administrator, you will need an administrator mode command prompt.

Steps to Create an Icon to Force Kill All iexplore.exe Processes

Typing command to command prompt for killing a process every single time is a tedious task. So to make this task simpler we can setup an icon which will kill the designated process.

Just right-click anywhere on your desktop and choose the option New \ Shortcut:

To kill Internet Explorer type the following command, you can use any executable in the place of iexplore.exe.

taskkill.exe /F /IM iexplore.exe /T

You can give the shortcut any useful name, and now open up the properties and choose to Run as Minimized option, and also you can select a more appropriate icon.

An icon will be created and by just clicking on it all running Internet Explorer windows will be killed. You can even assign a shortcut key for this task.

This technique can be used for killing all sorts of similar processes in a single click.