Terminating Process

[emyztik]

If banned = True Then
MsgBox "You have been Banned!", vbInformation + vbOKOnly, "Error"
TerminateEXE "ProgramName.exe"
End If

Ok what I'm trying to do is if someone is banned, I want the messagebox to appear and terminate the process (.exe). It works fine for me, but not for others... and I can't figure out why. What happens to others when they get banned is the messagebox appears and says you have been banned but the program still loads after that. I don't want it to. I want it to be closed/terminated if you're banned.

I can't figure out the problem because it works fine for me but doesn't for others.

What am I missing or doing wrong?

[Jacob Roman]

TerminateEXE App.Path & "\ProgramName.exe"

[emyztik]

That makes the program still load for me even when it says I'm banned.

[dglienna]

what did you set to become banned? move the file, or whatever. if you put a key in the reg, then it will have to be changed so that the path is included.

[emyztik]

I don't understand what you mean.

Sorry

[dglienna]

what condition gets checked that sets BANNED to be true?

[emyztik]

It reads a URL folder and if your harddrive serial .TXT is in there, it displays the messagebox and is SUPPOSED to close the process. it does for me but not for others

[dglienna]

maybe find the window and delete it?

[emyztik]

but how?

[dglienna]

why can't you just END the program instead of killing it? That way, it wouldn't load.

[emyztik]

because its not my program. its an external program

[dglienna]

FindWindow

will find a window by its caption

here's an API to kill the process.

here