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it seems that whenever i open a program in windows 8, the process name is WWAHost.exe

i would like to be able to do something like TASKKILL /F /IM notepad.exe and terminate a specific process by name

if i kill WWAHost.exe then all open programs will die.

any ideas?

Patrioticcow
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    Your question should be asked for at [Superuser](http://superuser.com/) rather than here, but `WWAHost.exe` is a safe and [essential process in Windows 8](http://www.groovypost.com/tips/wwahost-exe-windows-process-safe-running-or-virus/). – JosefZ Mar 24 '15 at 08:02
  • I can't reproduce this on Windows 8.1. Although WWAHost.exe is running, each application has its own process, e.g. Camera.exe or Notepad.exe. This is the case for both classical and Windows tile applications. What processes do you see when you run tasklist ? – Alex Mar 24 '15 at 08:37

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You can kill the process and all its children (ie. all processes started by it) using the /t switch:

taskkill /f /t /im wwahost.exe

See the documentation for taskkill (ss64) and tskill (ss64) system utilities.

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    (newer) `tskill /v wwahost.exe` also works. `/v` is for verbosity (will echo the result). unlike `taskkill` it can directly accept both PID or PIN (name) as an argument to target the process with. –  Aug 24 '17 at 09:25