These tips applies to Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8
1.Taskkill
Windows borrows this feature from Linux. Taskkill allows you to terminate a running process (program) from the command line. Here’s how you use it. Press the Windows Key + R then type CMD and press “Enter”. The command utility window opens. Type Tasklist at the prompt. You’ll see a list of running processes. Next to each process you’ll see a PID number. To kill any running task, type Taskkill /PID xxx (where xxx represents the PID number of the task you want to terminate). Why would you want to use this? Because you can? Or maybe your computer is frozen and you can’t access Task Manager. Or many just for fun?
2. Edit user accounts using the command line
Press the Window Key + R and type “control userpasswords2” (without the quotes) in the command line.
3. Create a shortcut easy and instant access to Task Manger
You can access Task Manager by right-clicking on your taskbar and choosing Task Manager, or you can use universal keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+ESC Did you know that you can also create a shortcut to Task Manager and leave it on your desktop, drag it to your quick launch toolbar or put in on your start menu? You can and it’s easy to do.
Right-click on your desktop and choose “New” “Shortcut” and copy and paste the following (in bold) into the “type location of the item” field:
%windir%\system32\taskmgr.exe
Once you’re created your shortcut, you can drag it to your start menu, quick launch bar, taskbar (Windows 7 and 8) or simply leave it on your desktop.
WHAT IS THE “WINDOWS KEY” ?
THANKS.
WHAT IS THE “WINDOWS KEY” ? THANKS.
It’s next to the CONTROL key on the keyboard. It looks like a 4 paned ‘window’.
The Windows key is the one with the Windows Logo on it….bottom row on keyboard, 3rd from left-hand side
Tips 1.Taskill and 2. Edit user accounts Windows Tips do not work from the command line in Windows XP.
When typing the command lines listed in the tips the following response at the command line:
For Tip 1 the response is “‘Tasklist’ is not recognized as an internal or external command,operable program or batch file.”
For Tip 2 the response is “‘control userpasswords2’ is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.”
When passing these tips, maybe I am missing something, but they s/b tested in the appropriate Windows Versions before passing them on. It would appear that the description shown in Tip 1, that tips 1 & 2 are tied to the Linux OS, because as stated above they don’t work in Windows XP and I would assume wouldn’t work in the other stated Windows versions. If I am wrong, Please lay it on me.
It works according to Microsoft as well.
Bob Silver, the windows key is the key to the left of Alt with the Microsoft flag on it.