Process killing

[rjbull]

I know Toolbox can, in some circumstances, kill a process.  Is there a way to make it kill whatever process has focus by pressing a hotkey?

[Paul (Lead Developer)]

Yes, you can kill any active window's process with this action set to a hotkey:

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HOW TO USE: Copy from Start to End, and then paste into an action.
REFERENCE : See an example of pasting at alomware.com/paste.png
0001 Action: Allow failure messages "0"
0002 Window: Assign active ""
0003 Window: Close forcibly ""
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You can also directly kill any process by typing a dash and its exe name in the Command box, like this to kill all open Notepads:



Lastly, you can middle-click a window's icon area to open the Power menu to force quit that window (same as killing its exe) by selecting "Quit forcibly > Only this single app window":



There's even more ways to kill processes, such as with dedicated actions using the "Computer: Terminate process" step:

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HOW TO USE: Copy from Start to End, and then paste into an action.
REFERENCE : See an example of pasting at alomware.com/paste.png
0001 Computer: Terminate process "notepad.exe"
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