How do I kill a program from VB if I only know its name

[Jenny W]

How do I kill a program from VB if I only know its name e.g. iexplorer.exe not the name in the task bar or the whole path.

Sorry about x-posting but http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...threadid=93419

[blitzer]

I guess this is what u need.


(It worked for me on winME, but I'm not sure that it will work correctly in winNT, win2000.)


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Private Declare Function OpenProcess Lib "kernel32" (ByVal dwDesiredAccess As Long, ByVal bInheritHandle As Long, ByVal dwProcessId As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function TerminateProcess Lib "kernel32" (ByVal hProcess As Long, ByVal uExitCode As Long) As Long

Private Declare Function Process32First Lib "kernel32" (ByVal hSnapshot As Long, lppe As PROCESSENTRY32) As Long
Private Declare Function Process32Next Lib "kernel32" (ByVal hSnapshot As Long, lppe As PROCESSENTRY32) As Long
Private Declare Function CreateToolhelp32Snapshot Lib "kernel32" (ByVal dwFlags As Long, ByVal th32ProcessID As Long) As Long

Private Type PROCESSENTRY32
dwSize As Long
cntUsage As Long
th32ProcessID As Long
th32DefaultHeapID As Long
th32ModuleID As Long
cntThreads As Long
th32ParentProcessID As Long
pcPriClassBase As Long
dwFlags As Long
szExeFile As String * 260
End Type

Const TH32CS_SNAPPROCESS = &H2&
Const hNull = 0

Dim arrProc() As PROCESSENTRY32

Const PROCESS_TERMINATE = &H1

Private Sub Form_Load()
Dim i As Integer
Dim hProc As Long
Const progName = "iexplore.exe"
GetRunningProcesses
For i = 0 To UBound(arrProc)
If InStr(1, arrProc(i).szExeFile, UCase(progName)) Then
If MsgBox("Shut down " & progName & "?", vbYesNo) = vbYes Then
hProc = OpenProcess(PROCESS_TERMINATE, 0, arrProc(i).th32ProcessID)
TerminateProcess hProc, 0
Else
Exit For
End If
End If
Next
Unload Me
End Sub

Function GetRunningProcesses() As Variant
Dim num As Integer
Dim lRet As Long

Dim strProcess As String, strProID As String
Dim hSnap As Long, udtProc As PROCESSENTRY32

hSnap = CreateToolhelp32Snapshot(TH32CS_SNAPPROCESS, 0)
If hSnap = hNull Then Exit Function
udtProc.dwSize = Len(udtProc)

lRet = Process32First(hSnap, udtProc)

Do While lRet
strProcess = StripNulls(udtProc.szExeFile)
strProID = udtProc.th32ProcessID
ReDim arrProc(num)
arrProc(num).szExeFile = strProcess
arrProc(num).th32ProcessID = strProID
num = num + 1
lRet = Process32Next(hSnap, udtProc)
Loop
End Function

Function StripNulls(pstrString As String) As String
StripNulls = Left(pstrString, InStr(pstrString, vbNullChar) - 1)
End Function


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"that's it!" =]