How to Kill an Application

Keywords:  kill application close

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Question:

Is there anyway to write a wbt file to:

1. Open the Close Program Box with CTRL-ALT-DEL.

2. Search for a specific line in that dialog box and highlight it.

3. Click on End Task.

Thanks.

Answer:

See IntControl 56, it can terminate an application by exe name, or window title.

OR

Try our Process extender functions.

NOTES: Windows NT/2000: The handle must have PROCESS_TERMINATE access.

** Use this function only in extreme circumstances.**

The tKillProc function is used to unconditionally cause a process to exit. The state of global data maintained by dynamic-link libraries (DLLs) may be compromised if tKillProc is used rather than WinClose.

tKillProc causes all threads within a process to terminate, and causes a process to exit, but DLLs attached to the process are not notified that the process is terminating.

Terminating a process causes the following:

• All of the object handles opened by the process are closed.
• All of the threads in the process terminate their execution.
• The state of the process object becomes signaled, satisfying any threads that had been waiting for the process to terminate.
• The states of all threads of the process become signaled, satisfying any threads that had been waiting for the threads to terminate.
• The termination status of the process changes from STILL_ACTIVE to the exit value of the process.
• Terminating a process does not cause child processes to be terminated.
• Terminating a process does not necessarily remove the process object from the system. A process object is deleted when the last handle to the process is closed.

Example:

Addextender("wproc34i.dll")
run("notepad.exe","")

count=tCountProc()
proclist=tlistproc()
killapp=askitemlist("*** Choose Notepad from the list ***",proclist,@TAB,@unsorted,@single)
procname=itemextract(1,killapp,"|")
procid=itemextract(2,killapp,"|")

if Procid!=""
   hProcess=tOpenProc(procid,3);PROCESS_TERMINATE
	if hProcess
	   tKillProc(hProcess)
		tcloseproc(hProcess)  
	   Message("tKillProc","%procname% is terminated")
	endif
else
  Message("tKillProc","Need a valid process id")

endif

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Article ID:   W13264

Filename:   Kill Apps albeit Ungracefully.txt