ok, so it's not about PHP

[mega_hurtz]

I know this is far from a PHP question, but I need an answer to this pronto. I'm a PHP programmer trying to do some VB. does anyone know how to kill a PID in VB?

[Anon]

thats a tuff one, you will prolly have to use an API call to get the pid and to kill it, look up Windows API calls on the net, and will prolly be different for NT / 9x machines

[figment]

did you look in planetsourcecode.com?

or experts-exchange.com?

🙂

:Jason

[gljaber]

you can get a kill program with the Windows NT resource kit. Don't know if there's a copy floating on the net, but you can kill a process by its PID or its name.
Presumably you can use some kind of exec() call to run it!

HTH

glj

[mega_hurtz]

I grew a brain after my posting and decided to try some things out. Among them was sending key strokes to the application which worked. I case your wondering, it looks like this:
<----------------------

Private Sub Command1_Click()
End
End Sub

Public Sub Form_Load()
Dim File, myPath, bol
Set File = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
myPath = App.Path
bol = File.FileExists("C:\acp.inf")
If bol = True Then
Call Shell("explorer.exe " & myPath, 1)
KillMe
Exit Sub
Else
File.CopyFile myPath & "autorun.inf", "C:\acp.inf"
Call Shell(myPath & "Tools_of_the_Trade.exe", vbMaximizedFocus)
KillMe
Exit Sub
End If
End Sub
Public Sub KillMe()
SendKeys "^C"
End
End Sub
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Anyway, why am I talking VB anyway?? long live PHP!!!!