Kill process in Windows

[tnayfeh]

Hi All,
I have a program within Access that populates a table with the PID session number and program name for a specific process on the server.

Is is possible to kill a process using code?

For example I would like a simple form that would have a pop up or text box to enter the PID number and it would automatically kill that process.
I know it's a risky procedure but I just found out that it's a trial and error way that they're killing processes on the server right now.

Thanks in advance!
TN

 

[sin1965]

this will involve the Win32API's regarding threads and processes. Check out the KB and MSDN at Microsoft.
hth
steve

 

[tnayfeh]

I have tried this code within a function in Access but can't seem to compile as it doesn't understand the objProcess.Terminate statement below. Am I missing something here?

Option Explicit

Dim objWMIService, objProcess, colProcess
Dim strComputer, strProcessKill
Dim intPID

  Set strComputer = "."
  Set intPID = InputBox("Enter the PID")

   Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _
   & "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" _ 
   & strComputer & "\root\cimv2") 

   Set colProcess = objWMIService.ExecQuery _
   ("Select * from Win32_Process Where ProcessID = " & intPID)

    For Each objProcess in colProcess
     objProcess.Terminate()
    Next

    WSCript.Echo "Just terminated process " & intPID _
    & " on " & strComputer
    WScript.Quit