OpenProcess returns DLL error 5

[tmighty2]

Hello!

I want to shut down a process (namely AnyDesk.exe).
AnyDesk.exe has 2 processes.

I can terminate one of them using this code below, but for the other, OpenProcess fails with error code 5 (ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED).

What do I have to do to be able to terminate this process, too?

Thank you very much!

Public Sub KillProcess(ByVal target_process_id As Long)

Dim target_process_handle As Long

    target_process_handle = OpenProcess( _
        SYNCHRONIZE Or PROCESS_TERMINATE, _
        ByVal 0&, target_process_id)
        
    If target_process_handle = 0 Then
        MsgBox "Dll Error " & Err.LastDLLError & " occured while trying to open process."
        Exit Sub
    End If

    If TerminateProcess(target_process_handle, 0&) = 0 Then
        Debug.Assert False
        'MsgBox "Error terminating process"
    Else
       ' MsgBox "Process terminated"
    End If

    CloseHandle target_process_handle

End Sub

[dz32]

That’s probably an access denied error. I didn’t Google it explicitly though. The following thread had a couple good thoughts on it:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/...-access-denied

If you haven’t done so already I would start with making sure your code is running as admin (this means the ide during development) and also adding code to enable the sedebug privledge

https://github.com/dzzie/libs/blob/b...sInfo.cls#L951