# encoding: ascii # api: powershell # title: Terminate process / user # description: #Ty Lopes – Calgary – Oct 2012 # version: 0.1 # type: script # author: Ty Lopes # license: CC0 # x-poshcode-id: 3689 # x-archived: 2012-10-14T23:37:29 # x-published: 2012-10-12T08:11:00 # # #(Troy is a huge nerd) # #How to kill a process by username # #Originally created for a script (running under a sched task) that was not closing excel application after enumerating throught the excel file # #Powershell does not seem to close excel properly using the workbook.close function # #Note: could not kill the process when I included the extension… example notepad.exe has to be notepad for the $process variable # #Ty Lopes - Calgary - Oct 2012 #(Troy is a huge nerd) #How to kill a process by username #Originally created for a script (running under a sched task) that was not closing excel application after enumerating throught the excel file #Powershell does not seem to close excel properly using the workbook.close function #Note: could not kill the process when I included the extension... example notepad.exe has to be notepad for the $process variable $username = "username" $process= "notepad" $owners = @{} gwmi win32_process |% {$owners[$_.handle] = $_.getowner().user} get-process $process | select processname,Id,@{l="Owner";e={$owners[$_.id.tostring()]}} | where-object {$_.owner -eq $username} | kill -force