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Kill an unwanted process

Loops through the processes and kills a process if it is not wanted

Submitted By: RodgerB

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Views: 6,734

Language: VB.NET

Last Modified: December 11, 2007

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1) Copy and paste the subroutine into a class.
2) Read how to call the subroutine.

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''' <summary>
''' Loops through the processes and kills a process if it is not wanted.
''' </summary>
''' <param name="strProcessToKill">The process you want killed.</param>
''' <remarks></remarks>
Public Sub killProcess(ByRef strProcessToKill As String)
Dim proc() As Process = Process.GetProcesses
For i As Integer = 0 To proc.GetUpperBound(0)
If proc(i).ProcessName = strProcessToKill Then
proc(i).Kill()
End If
Next
End Sub
' Example Usage.
killProcess("notepad")

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Comments
chiefofgxbxl 2009-08-08 21:57:37
nice code, works very nice.

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