Closing CMD windows with PowerShell [SOLVED]

[DOSadnie]

Is there way to close all CMD windows [including hidden ones] using strictly PowerShell code [thus not inserting to a PS1 file the >>taskkill<< batch command]?

These do not work

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Stop-Process -Name cmd.exe -Force

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Stop-Process -Name CMD -Force

even when executed with privileges

[Batcher]

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(Get-Process cmd).Kill()

[DOSadnie]

This works for a CMD window that I open manually - i.e. by executing

C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe

or

C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe

But it leaves opened all CMD windows that were evoked by executing of some BAT files and which are paused after displaying of some text

[DOSadnie]

I have found the culprit: it is an active countdown in CMD window that is making it immune to being closed

Even a BAT as simple as this one

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@echo off
timeout /t 10
pause

will not be closed until the timeout is finished, even if PS1 is using both methods

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Stop-Process -Name cmd -Force
(Get-Process cmd).Kill()

and is being run as Administrator while BAT without privileges


But solution to this seems to be using of either

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Stop-Process -Name timeout -Force

or

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(Get-Process timeout).Kill()

as apparently CMD window with active timeout in it changes its name to such. This works even if BAT has been executed as Administrator while PS1 was not


Thank you for suggesting usage of the Get-Process approach

[DOSadnie]

I have found the culprit: it is an active countdown in CMD window that is making it immune to being closed
[...]
as apparently CMD window with active timeout in it changes its name to such
[...]

And I have discovered a second [unrelated] case in which using of the

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timeout

command creates an issue: viewtopic.php?f=3&t=10897&p=69035#p69035