Terminating a Process

Is there a way to terminate a process that hasn't been opened by VB?

Right now I need to shell an application, and the application in turn is opening several applications that need to all be closed individually using VB.

I found this:

Private Declare Function TerminateProcess Lib "kernel32" (ByVal hProcess As Long, ByVal uExitCode As Long) As Long

But I'm not sure how to find out the hProcess, I know you can receive a return value from a shell, but right now I simply need to find out how to end a process without opening it first. I also tried closing the window, but that didn't work right as the application freezes, so I must end the process.

Have a look at this thread.

For some reason that code doesn't seem to be working. I tried it with calculator and it isn't doing a thing. I stuck the Type declarations in a module and changed the Declare Functions to Private and it doesn't do a thing.

I'm kinda stumped.