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Closing a Program Opened With a Shell

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chicagirl55

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I recently learned how to open a program using a shell in the text, but is there a way to close the program too? I've done some research on MSDN but have only found how to minimize and hide the program. Any help?

[pacman]
 
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Find the Window using the FindWindow API and send that window the WM_CLOSE message via the SendMessage API

.. off of the top of my heaad ..

Rob
 
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Hi chicagirl55,

Does thread222-387111 help you? CaKiwi
 
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