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Created April 5, 2011 01:45
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A program to terminate all processes of same name in Windows
#include <windows.h>
#include <Tlhelp32.h>
int _tmain(int argc, const TCHAR* argv[])
{
if(argc != 2) return -1;
TCHAR* processName = argv[1];
PROCESSENTRY32 ppe = {0};
ppe.dwSize = sizeof (PROCESSENTRY32);
HANDLE hSnapShot = CreateToolhelp32Snapshot (TH32CS_SNAPPROCESS, 0);
if (Process32First (hSnapShot, &ppe))
{
do
{
// Process name match (and it is not current process)
if (!_tcsicmp (processName, ppe.szExeFile) && (ppe.th32ProcessID != GetCurrentProcessId ()))
{
HANDLE hMySecondProcess = OpenProcess (PROCESS_TERMINATE, FALSE, ppe.th32ProcessID);
if (hMySecondProcess)
{
TerminateProcess (hMySecondProcess, 0);
}
CloseHandle (hMySecondProcess);
}
}while (Process32Next (hSnapShot, &ppe)); }
CloseHandle (hSnapShot);
}
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