This second setting is required because we need to express what particular window we want to kill by its title.

If you want to be able to kill a window by its path, then you also have to change the following setting: enable Display the full path in the title bar This option can also be changed from the registry, but I don't know its exact location. In the explorer options, go to the tab View, and under Advanced options, look for a setting that says: Launch folder windows in a separate process In any explorer window, open the View tab, then at the right, press options. Getting there is different for every windows version, and since you forgot to mention which version of windows you are using, I will assume Windows 10. How to change explorer to open a window in its own process? However, you can simply enable opening explorer windows in their own process and suddenly, you can stop one window from the commandline. By default, Explorer does not spawn separate processes, so you can't kill one process without killing all windows, the taskbar and everything else explorer does.

Command to close all windows