How to stop a program (process) on a regular basis in windows 1. You can run the taskkill command to implement it. taskkill/f/im iexplore.exe/f specifies the process to be forcibly terminated. This parameter can be ignored for remote processes. All remote processes will be forcibly terminated. The program name of the process to be terminated is specified by www.2cto.com/im iexplore.exe. Note: the process name used by the program can be queried in the Windows Task Manager. 2. You can use the control panel> task plan to add a task. 1) if it is an existing script file (for example, iexplore.exe), you can directly select this file and add a task. 2) If you want to stop a program but do not know its stop script, you can manually generate a. bat file and add it through the "Task Plan. For example, the content in the abc. bat file is taskkill/f/im javaw.exe.