How to use Windows PowerShell to find a process and kill it

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This is going to be a simple and strait forward example on finding and killing a process using windows powershell. For the example we are going to start and kill the cmd process.

This is a example to find cmd (command prompt)

tasklist | findstr cmd

Use the selected id to kill the process

Stop-Process -id 12256

https://youtu.be/EpzYQziOnRo

you can stop a process by name:
Stop-Process -name CMD×