You can gracefully stop Windows processes using the Stop-Process command let. For example, to stop Chrome:
Stop-Process -Name Chrome
Or to stop it by ID. To locate the ID of a process, use get-process:
get-process Chrome
You can then use the -ID operator to stop the process:
Stop-Process -ID 6969
Kill is a command that all Mac and Unix admins know. It’s similar to Stop-Process, except it’s anything but graceful. And you use the -processname option to stop a process:
kill -processname calc