Use PowerShell to stop-process, can i bypass confirm?

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Hcabnettek picture Hcabnettek · Jun 29, 2010 · Viewed 23.9k times · Source

I'm a powershell newbie, but I often find myself starting and stopping a small group of services when I'm debugging some code. In Powershell I can easily stop the processes using a wildcard but it makes me confirm. There is a -confirm parameter, but I must not be using it correctly?

`Stop-Process -ProcessName alcore.* -Confirm`

Can I bypass the confirm and just stop the process?

Thanks for any help, ~ck in San Diego

Answer

driis picture driis · Jun 29, 2010

Try

stop-process -ProcessName alcore.* -Force

From get-help stop-process:

On Windows Vista and later versions of Windows, to stop a process that is not owned by the current user, you must start Windows PowerShell with the "Run as administrator" option. Also, you are prompted for confirmation unless you use the Force parameter.

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