Difficulty- Extreme( Need help with shutting down a program in NT)

[Joey_k29]

I am writing a program for windows NT that will close an exe(when it is running I have the hwnd for it). I have tried the terminateprocess command but it is not working. Does the code for terminate process vary in NT. I am pretty sure it does, but not 100%. If it doesn't, could you give a detailed description of what the parameters are that are sent.

thank you for your time,
Joe

If anything is confusing please post and tell me to clarify.

[Sastraxi]

You run into lots of problems? Are you making an OS or something in Visual Basic? Unfortunately, I don't have NT, so I can't help you. But I would guess TerminateProcess would work, if you got the handle of the window with Findwindow. If you don't know the class-name, you can use SPY++ which comes with VS6 to find it.

[Joey_k29]

I am making a program that is able to close down programs from any device(almost like a program for ctrl alt delete with a few little twists).

Thanks anyway. Could you possibly describe to me about what has to be sent when you use TerminateProcess?

Joe

[Sastraxi]

I've never used terminateprocess myself, but there was one on this Q + A once. I'll do a search.

[Sastraxi]

http://forums.vb-world.net/showthrea...threadid=25427

Sam Finch shows us how.

And for the hWnd, use findwindow to get the hWnd. Example:

hWnd = FindWindow("IEFrame",vbNullString)

That would get the handle of Internet Explorer. I'm sure there's a process which lets us enumerate all of the available hWnds, because it's in Spy++. Anyway, hope I helped, see ya.

[Sastraxi]

And here:

http://forums.vb-world.net/showthrea...threadid=25871

Is the code to enumerate all available windows. Enjoy!

[Joey_k29]

I have searched and found those threads before. Unfortunately, that code doesn't seem to work with NT. Maybe I am doing something wrong. Could you explain what each variable does that is being sent and a list of possible values?

thank you for your help,
Joe

[gwdash]

I posted that enumeration code, it does work in NT, because the person who asked for it used NT. I don't know about TerminateProccess. goto www.vbapi.com. Thats were i got the code