How to close all CMD windows with PS1 script? [SOLVED]

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Is there way to close all CMD windows [including hidden ones] using strictly PowerShell code?

These two 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

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This

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(Get-Process notepad.Kill()

close both files opened in Notepad and an empty Notepad window opened by executing of

C:\Windows\System32\notepad.exe


But this

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(Get-Process cmd).Kill()

closes only this CMD windows that were opened by going to

C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe

or

C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe

while leaving opened all CMD windows that were evoked by executing of some BAT files; even if PS1 is executed as Administrator

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The problem all along has been an active countdown in CMD window [used it my test files]- it was making any CMD window with it being immune to being closed with PowerShell

Even as simple BAT as this one

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@echo off
timeout /t 10
pause

will not be closed until the timeout in it is finished, even if PS1 is uses both methods

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

and is executed as Administrator while BAT was without privileges


Solution to this seems to be incorporation of either

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Stop-Process -Name timeout -Force

or

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(Get-Process timeout).Kill()

as apparently CMD window that has an active timeout in changes its name to timeout. This works even if BAT was executed as Administrator while PS1 is not


This is a peculiar behavior, is it not?