Not able to kill the process which is listed under background process in Task manager

[Anonymous]

Hi,  I'm trying to kill one process which is coming under background process list in task manager. but, BP not killing the process. The process belongs to an exe file. Please help.

[AnatoliyBanniko]

Hi. What function do you use for killing the process? 

[Anonymous]

Using Kill available under environment Objects

[JonLloyd]

Did you find a work around for this?

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Jon Lloyd
RPA Developer
CGI
Europe/London
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[Walter.Koller]

We had the same issue when the Kill Process action in Utility - Environment did not end the processes as expected but neither returned an error.
Instead we now use Start Proces in Utility Environment with:
Application: "taskkill"
Arguments: "/IM <processname> /f"

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/taskkill

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Walter Koller
Solution Manager
Erste Group IT International GmbH
Europe/Vienna
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[GaetanViau]

Try the KILL PROCESS action using the application name without the '.exe'. As an example, use 'AcroRd32' for Acrobat Reader instead of 'AcroRd32.exe'.

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Gaetan Viau
Developer
CGI
America/Toronto
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[KerrieWhelan]

Walter Koller, thanks so much for sharing your solution!  This solution worked perfectly first time.

We had the same issue when the Kill Process action in Utility - Environment did not end the processes as expected but neither returned an error.
Instead we now use Start Proces in Utility Environment with:
Application: "taskkill"
Arguments: "/IM <processname> /f"

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Kerrie Whelan
Technology Product Owner
Lincoln Investment
America/New_York
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