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Asked: 2026-05-15T13:45:16+00:00

I’m a powershell newbie, but I often find myself starting and stopping a small

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I’m a powershell newbie, but I often find myself starting and stopping a small group of services when I’m debugging some code. In Powershell I can easily stop the processes using a wildcard but it makes me confirm. There is a -confirm parameter, but I must not be using it correctly?

`Stop-Process -ProcessName alcore.* -Confirm`

Can I bypass the confirm and just stop the process?

Thanks for any help,
~ck in San Diego

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  1. Editorial Team

    Try

    stop-process -ProcessName alcore.* -Force

    From get-help stop-process:

    On Windows Vista and later versions of Windows, to stop a process
    that is not owned by the current user,
    you must start Windows PowerShell with the “Run as administrator” option. Also,
    you are prompted for confirmation
    unless you use the Force parameter.

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