Any way to write a Windows .bat file to kill processes?

You can do this with 'taskkill'. With the /IM parameter, you can specify image names.

Example:

taskkill /im somecorporateprocess.exe

You can also do this to 'force' kill:

Example:

taskkill /f /im somecorporateprocess.exe

Just add one line per process you want to kill, save it as a .bat file, and add in your startup directory. Problem solved!

If this is a legacy system, PsKill will do the same.

taskkill /f /im "devenv.exe"

this will forcibly kill the pid with the exe name "devenv.exe"

equivalent to -9 on the nix'y kill command

As TASKKILL might be unavailable on some Home/basic editions of windows here some alternatives:

TSKILL processName

or

TSKILL PID

Have on mind that processName should not have the .exe suffix and is limited to 18 characters.

Another option is WMIC :

wmic Path win32_process Where "Caption Like 'MyProcess%.exe'" Call Terminate

wmic offer even more flexibility than taskkill with its SQL-like matchers .With wmic Path win32_process get you can see the available fileds you can filter (and % can be used as a wildcard).