how to kill a process

[dvsr]

Hi, How to kill a process given a process ID Thanks and Regards, Venkat

[goodoljosh1980]

Look at: http://www.codeproject.com/cpp/kill_process.asp?df=100&forumid=132&exp=0&select=4095[^] That should help.

[Hamid Taebi]

See How to kill a process given a name [^]

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[Stephen Hewitt]

Killing a process should only be a last resort and can be dangerous; better to ask it to close down. That said, you can use the TerminateProcess API to kill a process given a HANDLE to the process. The OpenProcess function can be used to get a process HANDLE from its id.

Steve