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Terminate a process by its process id or name.

:: To terminate a process by its id:
taskkill /pid <process_id>

:: To terminate a process by its name:
taskkill /im <process_name>

:: To forcefully terminate a specified process:
taskkill /pid <process_id> /f

:: To terminate a process and its child processes:
taskkill /im <process_name> /t

:: To terminate a process on a remote machine:
taskkill /pid <process_id> /s <remote_name>

:: To display information about the usage of the command:
taskkill /?