How do you kill processes in Windows? Task Manager hides them! Is there a better way in DOS?
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install Cygwin and you will have unix command "kill" - it may be better than task manager but ultimately Windows is weak at killing processes dead - kill -9 always worked for me in Unix -
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One thing I always found odd about the way some people did things in Unix was poor use of processes. Place I used to work had some very flaky in-house software.
Among the numerous bugs, whenever you used one particular option on the menu it launched a new process.Only discovered that when I ran out of memory and found umpteen processes running.Comment
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I normally find installing any new app in windows does the trick - usually kills off most of the stuff that used to work and frequently (for reason best known to the boy god himself) completely screws up networking so you have to bin it all and redefine it.Comment
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Re: You know how you can kill processes in Unix, what about
DWORD WINAPI CLaunch::LaunchAndWait( LPVOID pParam )
{
//        UC_FILENOTFOUND
//        UC_TIMEOUT
// UC_SHUTDOWN       
// UC_SUCCESS
// UC_FAILURE       
       
        LPTHREADINFO pThreadInfo = (LPTHREADINFO)pParam;
        PROCESS_INFORMATION        stProcessInfo;
        if ( LaunchApplication( pThreadInfo, &stProcessInfo ) )
        {
                // Need to store thread to list to prevent memory leaks with CWinThread object.
                // If our main app is requested to terminate
                // before this thread terminates, then we need to terminate this thread first.
                // Wait for either the process to terminate or the event to be signalled.
                // If the event is signalled, then that indicates the main application
                // is terminating and all open threads need to terminate also.
                HANDLE hThreads[2];
                hThreads[0] = pThreadInfo->hTermMonitorThreads;
                hThreads[1] = stProcessInfo.hProcess;
                DWORD dwWait = pThreadInfo->m_dwWait ;
                // wait for application to terminate or event to be signalled
                DWORD dwIndex = WaitForMultipleObjects( 2, hThreads, FALSE, dwWait ) ;
               
                g_bStatus |= 0x01 ; /* Turn On The Continue Flag */
               
                if ( dwIndex != WAIT_TIMEOUT )       
                {
                        if ( dwIndex == 0 )
                        {
/* Force Close Down */
HANDLE hProcess = OpenProcess( PROCESS_ALL_ACCESS, FALSE, stProcessInfo.dwProcessId ) ;
TerminateProcess( hProcess, 99 ) ;
CloseHandle( hProcess ) ;
                                g_bStatus = 0 ;
A case of write it yourself or find some complete jobbie
written by macroshaft that comes with C++ to kill threads
and things.
If I was like the smart asses on this forum I would just say
call TerminateProcess .....
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