Topic: Remote Task Manager
Just like how you don’t need an interactive login to a remote Windows computer to get running process details, you don’t need an interactive login to terminate Windows processes on a remote computer either.
The taskkill command is very similar to the tasklist command. Just like the tasklist command, taskkill also allows you to specify different credentials on the command line if you need to authenticate to the remote computer with a different username and password. Again, remember if you specify the password on the command line it will be visible to other administrators on the local computer who look at the local computer’s process list details. Just like how you don’t need an interactive login to a remote Windows computer to get running process details, you don’t need an interactive login to terminate Windows processes on a remote computer either. You obviously want to be very careful with these remote kill commands as you can pretty easily knock out an important service or process on the remote machine. Proceed with caution. The tasklist command also allows you to specify different credentials on the command line if you need to authenticate to the remote computer with a different username and password. Just remember if you specify the password on the command line it will be visible to other administrators on the local computer who look at the local computer’s process list details. Since Windows XP there is a built-in command line utility named “tasklist“. By running the command “tasklist /s hostname” where “hostname” is the remote computer you want to query, it will return a list of processes on the remote machine and some basic details about each process (PID, session number, memory usage, etc.).
