How to Suspend Windows Processes without Killing It

If you know the name of a process to kill, for example notepad.exe, use the following command from a command prompt to end it: taskkill /IM notepad.exe

This will cause the program to terminate but this will stop it permanently making you lose all unsaved data on that process. So rather suspend windows processes you need to than to kill them.

Tools to Suspend Windows Processes

# Free Windows Process Freezer

An easy to use free program for suspending (freezing) and resuming processes. It works similar to Windows Task Manager, but instead of terminating the process, the program allows you to suspend the problematic process and resume it later.

This program is very handy when a process is consuming lots of system resources, but you do not want to terminate it.
> Download Free Process Freezer : Link (400kb)
 In this case, use Free Process Freezer to suspend the process without losing any data, and resume it later whenever you wish.

# PsSuspend : Suspend Windows Processes CMD Tool

PsSuspend lets you suspend processes on the local or a remote system, which is desirable in cases where a process is consuming a resource (e.g. network, CPU or disk) that you want to allow different processes to use.
> Download PsSuspend : Link (1.3mb) | via microsoft
Rather than kill the process that’s consuming the resource, suspending permits you to let it continue operation at some later point in time.


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