While wanting to kill a process, i decided why use the task manager when i can use powershell. I will be using wmi and the Win32_Process class for this task.

First i look for the process name i would like to terminate:

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gwmi win32_process | select-object name

I then select the process name from this list to confirm this is the process i want to terminate:

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gwmi win32_process | where {$_.name -eq "AdobeUpdater.exe"}

Then i terminate it:

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(gwmi win32_process | where {$_.name -eq "AdobeUpdater.exe"}).terminate()

We are looking for a return value of 0 indicating this was successfull:

__GENUS          : 2
__CLASS          : __PARAMETERS
__SUPERCLASS     :
__DYNASTY        : __PARAMETERS
__RELPATH        :
__PROPERTY_COUNT : 1
__DERIVATION     : {}
__SERVER         :
__NAMESPACE      :
__PATH           :
ReturnValue      : 0

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