From: Tommy Nordgren <tommy.nordgren@...>
Date: 2008-01-18T01:07:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Kill Process by it's name


On 17 jan 2008, at 14.54, Agustin Ramos wrote:

> Hi everybody, i'm working on Microsoft Windows XP, and i want to  
> make a
> program to kill windows process by the name of the process, not by  
> the PID,
> like EXCEL.EXE to kill microsoft excel or IEXPLORE.EXE to kill  
> Internet
> Explorer.
> At this moment, i'm using this code:
>
> mgmt = WIN32OLE.connect('winmgmts:\\\\.')
>  mgmt.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_Process Where Name =
> '#{proc_name}'").each{ |item|
>    item.Terminate()
> }
> It works, but sometimes it crashes, in an inesperated way.
>
> Thanks and i'm waiting for your help.
>
> Agustin Ramos
	I'm not using win myself. But I've seen an example on killing  
processes in Win
in Managing Projects with GUN Make, from O'Reilly
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Tommy Nordgren
tommy.nordgren@comhem.se