Now, once you found out what the command is that you want to use to kill the window, replace tasklist with taskkill, and remove the /V parameter. So in the above case, the windows title still has to start with a C, but anything else is optional. tasklist can use a wildcard, but only AFTER the search. If you want to find any window that has a path open with C:\ in Explorer, you can use the following command: tasklist /V /FI "IMAGENAME eq explorer.exe" /FI "WINDOWTITLE eq C*" In your case you will want to use the following: tasklist /V /FI "WINDOWTITLE eq C:\Program Files"ĭo note, if you have multiple windows open, the windows name is only shown of the LAST window that was active. This will tell you exactly what you can kill. Now type tasklist /V /FI "IMAGENAME eq explorer.exe" Open the window you want first, then open a command prompt. The beauty of tasklist is that it uses mostly the same syntax as taskkill. In order to learn what kind of command you would have to enter, you can use tasklist to find the window first. That said, once you have enabled this, you can use taskkill to end that window. So if you have a C:\Program Files and a D:\Program Files, it will show Program Files for both, and if you have both folders open, 1 command will kill both windows. By default it only shows the name of the current folder. This second setting is required because we need to express what particular window we want to kill by its title. If you want to be able to kill a window by its path, then you also have to change the following setting: enable Display the full path in the title bar This option can also be changed from the registry, but I don't know its exact location. In the explorer options, go to the tab View, and under Advanced options, look for a setting that says: Launch folder windows in a separate process In any explorer window, open the View tab, then at the right, press options. Getting there is different for every windows version, and since you forgot to mention which version of windows you are using, I will assume Windows 10. How to change explorer to open a window in its own process? However, you can simply enable opening explorer windows in their own process and suddenly, you can stop one window from the commandline. By default, Explorer does not spawn separate processes, so you can't kill one process without killing all windows, the taskbar and everything else explorer does.
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