Terminate a process

[JM2251]

Hi, I want to terminate a process. I have porcessid and HWND. How to terminate using these? Regards, JM

[Stephen Hewitt]

The first rule of terminating a process is not to do it: prefer asking it to close down nicely. See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/178893[^]. That said, terminating a process is sometimes necessary as a last resort. The TerminateProcess[^] function will do the trick. It requires a process HANDLE but you only have a process id: use OpenProcess[^] to get a HANDLE from it.

Steve

[R jeev K R]

Try this.... HANDLE prHandle = OpenProcess(PROCESS_ALL_ACCESS, TRUE, dwProcessID); if (NULL != prHandle) { TerminateProcess(prHandle, 0); }

[R jeev K R]

If you know the hwnd of the window, then you can use SendMessage Function to close the window....

[Stephen Hewitt]

I'm not the one asking the question. Your suggestion is the procedure I outlined in my post.

Steve

[R jeev K R]

You are right Stephen, We two are in same direction. I just followed your reply thread. Not opened another thread, that's all. anyway sorry for the confusion.

[KarstenK]

i suggest to PostMessage WM_CLOSE so the app can terminate in a correct manner http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms632617%28VS.85%29.aspx[^]

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