Force kill of processes in Windows

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Sometimes Windows Tasks Manager is not able to kill an in-memory process. We try to close it several times with no luck :(

For these frustration moments we can make use of a console command named TaskKill

With TaskKill the pain ends simply with:

taskkill /IM filename.exe /F

More info about taskkillhttp://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc725602.aspx