killing a windows process

[erixire]

Hi everybody,

Is it possible to "kill" a windows process if I know the name of that process? Is it possible to know it's PID that is displayed in the system manager?

Thanks for help.

 

[tclbud]

If you are using UNIX you would type in kill -9 followed by a space then the process number. ps will give you the processes running

 

[erixire]

Excuse for the confusion, but "windows process", should be read "Microsoft Windows process".

Does anyone have an idea?

 

[AviaTraining]

I've not done enough Windows-specific programming to know if you can kill another executing program given just its name. My best advise is to go to the Tcl'ers Wiki (

http://wiki.tcl.tk)

and check out the page "kill,"

http://mini.net/tcl/2367.

Perhaps the information and links provided there will get you on the right track. - Ken Jones, President
Avia Training and Consulting

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[marsd]

I posted a solution based on this wiki post and
the freely available nature of the kill and tlist utilities for windows. win2k comes with both. win9x
has them in the reskit directory of the cd-rom.

Here is some example code that you can perfect.


proc Lpick {{x "0"}} {
global arra
set lis [exec tlist]

 foreach el [split $lis "\n"] {
  puts $el
  regexp "\[0-9\]+ \[a-zA-Z\]+.exe" $el all  
  catch {set arra([incr x])   $all}
   }
}

proc KillIt {name} {
global arra
foreach poss [array name arra] {
set id [lindex [split $arra($poss) " "] 0]
set pname [lindex [split $arra($poss) " "] 1]
if {[string compare $name $pname] == 0} {
puts "Killing $name now."
exec kill $name
}
}
return
}

Lpick ; parray arra ;
foreach spec $argv {
KillIt $spec
}


time [list KillIt svchost.exe]
80000 microseconds per iteration