Closing programs - Xtreme Visual Basic Talk

01-02-2003, 01:38 PM

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Closing programs

I've looked everywhere for this, but i can't seem to find it...

I want to make a program that looks to see which other programs are running on the computer... (MS Word, Outlook, Internet Explorer, Systray, Some Virus, etc...)
I want to tell the user the names of these programs, then let the user press a button to close the program.

I can't find anywhere how to find the currently running programs or close them.

Can anyone help ?

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01-02-2003, 01:41 PM

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Pressing CTRL-ALT-DEL fires the task manager, which gives the user the same functionallity.

01-02-2003, 01:55 PM

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Start with the API call: EnumWindows

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01-02-2003, 02:04 PM

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Quote:

Originally posted by ArnoutV
Pressing CTRL-ALT-DEL fires the task manager, which gives the user the same functionallity.

But this does not enable the user to close programs fast enough - e.g. a so called 'Java Trap' that opens browser windows too fast for the user to close. VB could close them all before they could be opened again, but a user with Ctrl - Alt - Del could not.

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01-03-2003, 05:17 AM

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01-03-2003, 05:34 AM

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Get the api tool from www.allapi.net

It lists api calls and categorises them by function and there's quite a big section on process manipulation (including identifying/closing/opening)

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