What are tasklist and taskkill?

tasklist shows all active processes in Windows with their PID, memory usage and name. taskkill allows terminating any process by PID or name. Together they form an essential combo for managing the system from the command line.

CMD — List all processes
tasklist
Filter by image name
tasklist /FI "IMAGENAME eq chrome.exe"
PowerShell — Top 10 by memory
Get-Process | Sort-Object WorkingSet -Descending | Select-Object -First 10 Name, Id, @{N='MB';E={[math]::Round($_.WorkingSet/1MB,1)}}
Kill process by PID
taskkill /PID 4512 /F
Cerewro Tip: Ask the AI: "Close all Office processes that are not saved" and Cerewro will request confirmation before executing taskkill on each process.