Need to Programatically Kill Applications

[mike]

I have a Windows NT Workstation which runs unattended. Upon reboot, the machine
will start up 4 console applications. A Marimba tuner is installed on the
machine which will automatically look for software updates once a day during
off hours. If there is an update, the machine needs to terminate the 4 running
applications before updating the software. Marimba allows for a pre-update
script/application to be executed and this is what I need to write.

On UNIX this is easy.

But I'm not sure if this is even possible under NT. I've been playing around
with a C++ program which calls DestroyWindow, and also have used the CWnd
class and its various methods, but without any luck. My best guess is that
security prevents one application from killing another. Is this true? If
not, how would I go about killing these applications using a C/C++ application
or script.

thanks,

mike

[Randy Charles Morin]

Have you look at TerminateProcess?
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"mike" <lellom@nasd.com> wrote in message news:3b5c2c90$1@news.devx.com...
>
> I have a Windows NT Workstation which runs unattended. Upon reboot, the
machine
> will start up 4 console applications. A Marimba tuner is installed on the
> machine which will automatically look for software updates once a day
during
> off hours. If there is an update, the machine needs to terminate the 4
running
> applications before updating the software. Marimba allows for a pre-update
> script/application to be executed and this is what I need to write.
>
> On UNIX this is easy.
>
> But I'm not sure if this is even possible under NT. I've been playing
around
> with a C++ program which calls DestroyWindow, and also have used the CWnd
> class and its various methods, but without any luck. My best guess is that
> security prevents one application from killing another. Is this true? If
> not, how would I go about killing these applications using a C/C++
application
> or script.
>
> thanks,
>
> mike
>

[Joe]

Hey Mike,

Check into the FindWindow API call. It may be what your looking for. Once
you have the handle to the window, just send a WM_CLOSE message to it.

Here's a short example of how to use it.

CString csWindowTitle = "Window Title";
HWND result = ::FindWindow(NULL, csWindowTitle);
if (result != NULL)
::SendMessage(result, WM_COMMAND, WM_CLOSE, 0);


-Joe


"mike" <lellom@nasd.com> wrote:
>
>I have a Windows NT Workstation which runs unattended. Upon reboot, the
machine
>will start up 4 console applications. A Marimba tuner is installed on the
>machine which will automatically look for software updates once a day during
>off hours. If there is an update, the machine needs to terminate the 4 running
>applications before updating the software. Marimba allows for a pre-update
>script/application to be executed and this is what I need to write.
>
>On UNIX this is easy.
>
>But I'm not sure if this is even possible under NT. I've been playing around
>with a C++ program which calls DestroyWindow, and also have used the CWnd
>class and its various methods, but without any luck. My best guess is that
>security prevents one application from killing another. Is this true? If
>not, how would I go about killing these applications using a C/C++ application
>or script.
>
>thanks,
>
>mike
>