[RESOLVED] More powerful than API TerminateProcess...

I've tested API TerminateProcess and it did not kill some programs like
"Warcraft 3 Frozen Throne" as far as i knew the program is not running as
service...why? is there any other way which is more powerfull to kill a process
like the one program i mentioned above...thanks

I don't have VB6 with me right now, but stick this in a module and try:

VB Code:

Option Explicit
 
    Private Declare Function PostMessage Lib "user32" Alias "PostMessageA" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal wMsg As Long, ByVal wParam As Long, ByVal lParam As Long) As Long
    Private Declare Function GetWindowText Lib "user32.dll" Alias "GetWindowTextA" _
    (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal lpString As String, ByVal nMaxCount As Long) As Long
    Private Declare Function EnumWindows Lib "user32.dll" _
    (ByVal lpEnumFunc As Long, ByVal lParam As Long) As Long
           
    Private Target As String
    Private Const WM_CLOSE = &H10
 
    Private Function EnumCallback(ByVal app_hWnd As Long, ByVal param As Long) As Long
        Dim buf As String * 256
        Dim title As String
        Dim length As Long
        Dim hWndREC As Long
        length = GetWindowText(app_hWnd, buf, Len(buf))
        title = Left$(buf, length)
        If InStr(1, title, Target, 3) <> 0 Then
            PostMessage app_hWnd, WM_CLOSE, 0, 0
        End If
        EnumCallback = 1
    End Function
 
    Public Sub CloseProgram(app_name As String)
        Target = app_name
        EnumWindows AddressOf EnumCallback, 0
    End Sub

Call with
CloseProgram("Warcraft 3 Frozen Throne"), or whatever the caption is in the toolbar.

Works Great thanks...

but another problem comes up...because i want to programatically kill some processes that way, i dont know how to enumerate the caption of each process that is on the taskbar so that i can pass each caption to closeprogram...can you show me how...thank you very very much.

I'm not sure what you mean.. do you want to end every process with this function?

Why do you need to terminate so many processes?

Ok, this is what i mean...

At a certain amount of time, my app should kill some process(a variety of programs) which have been lunch(and was left running) during the session. my app will iterate through a list of that processes and kill each one of them.

And by using the function above, it needs to know the captions of each processes in order to kill it, right.

Thats where my problem arise, i have to enumerate and make a list of the "captions" of that variety of running processes, how would i get that "captions" programatically...
(im pretty sure its not the exe name)

i hope you understand my explanation...

Umm, no. You can Terminate a running process just by its exe name.

http://www.vbforums.com/showpost.php...71&postcount=5

And to enumerate the running processes.
http://vbforums.com/showthread.php?t=244232

I think i got your problem(same with mine) and maybe This can help you too.

Got it, thanks...