Kill process with batch

[jebediah]

Hi guys.
I've been trying to kill a process with a batch file but it seems like neither batch or Powershell works.
There's no problem with killing the process via taskmanager.

Here's what i've tried

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taskkill /F /IM task.exe

If i put a pause in the code it just says

ERROR: The process "task.exe" with PID 9204 could not be terminated
Reason: No instance of activity is running

I've tried taskkill with the PID as well and that gave me same error.
Any ideas what i'm doing wrong here?

[ShadowThief]

How do you know you're passing the correct executable name to taskkill? Does it appear in tasklist?