I have a python application. The application has multiple threads running, to perform multiple tasks at the same time. Some of the tasks are for example monitoring different folders. I need to start the application via the command line and also stop the application via the windows command lines. I run via command line with a simple command on windows. the command to run the application: python myapplication.py starting application obviousely not a problem. My problem is how to stop the application. I have found many reference to taskkill, as the best option. However taskkill is no finding any process with myapplication name. how do I stop this application via commandline? this is the command I did to stop taskkill /F /IM "myapplication" /T and I get the following error: ERROR: The process "myapplication" not found. I have tried multiple variation of it like bellow and many others,but none is working. I get the error that the process "" not found. taskkill /F /IM "myapplication.py" /T taskkill /IM "myapplication.py" /F does anyone has an idea? Continue reading...