Taskkill.exe: don't throw an error if the process is not running

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Mar 15, 202663830 views

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I'm running a Visual Studio post build event that shuts down IIS if it's still running after compilation: The following works perfectly if IIS is still running, but throws an error if it has already stopped: Is there a way to tell taskkill to ignore the problem if it can't find a matching running p…

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taskkill /f /im w3wp.exe

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Instead of running one command, would running a small batch file work instead?

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Taskkill.exe: don't throw an error if the process is not running

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