How to find the process id of a running Java process on Windows? And how to kill the process alone?

Question

I want to kill the particular Java process in Windows, like in Linux (ps -aux to get processid and then kill processid to kill the process).

Answer 1

This is specific to Windows. I was facing the same issue where I have to kill one specific java program using taskkill. When I run the java program, tasklist was showing the same program with Image name set as java.exe. But killing it using taskkill /F java.exe will stop all other java applications other than intended one which is not required.

So I run the same java program using:

start "MyProgramName" java java-program..

Here start command will open a new window and run the java program with window's title set to MyProgramName.

Now to kill this java-program use the following taskkill command:

taskkill /fi "MyProgramName"

Your Java program will be killed only. Rest will be unaffected.