Subj : Re: Kill an exe file programmatically
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : Jogy
Date : Thu Sep 08 2005 11:46 am

Micron Engineering wrote:
> I need to write an application that may kill exe files already running. 
> These exe files may be applications like MS Word ora ny other 
> application that you may see on task manager. Is there a way to do this 
> by code?
> Best regards, Massimo Manca, Micron Engineering

Hello,

You need something like this?
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/PsKill.html

You can use the WinApi function TerminateProcess:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dllproc/base/terminateprocess.asp

Also look this article and the related links:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dllproc/base/terminating_a_process.asp


Jogy

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