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Asked: 2026-05-13T07:37:13+00:00

I’m capturing the PID in a variable which I kill later IF NOT %SERVICE_PID%

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I’m capturing the PID in a variable which I kill later

  IF NOT "%SERVICE_PID%" == 0 taskkill /pid %SERVICE_PID% /t /f

though everytime I do this in a batch file it makes my computer restart because it kills some system process

the service pid should be a user defined service launched from cmd

I dont understand why it keeps making my machine croak.

When I run “taskkill /pid %SERVICE_PID% /t /f” on the command line it works fine! =/

help!

Setting SERVICE_PID

FOR /F "tokens=4 delims= " %%A IN ('sc queryex myservice ^|FIND "PID"')
 DO SET SERVICE_PID=%%A
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  1. Editorial Team

    Try removing /f option, it forces to terminate a process, so system processes might get terminated forcefully without notification.

    I am suspecting you are trying to kill some system processes in the batch script, in the sense that in your list of PIDs there might be some system process IDs as well.

    Thanks

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