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There are several ways thay you can close a program.<br />
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The first legal way is to post the main window a message telling it to close down<br />
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PostMessage(hMainWindow, WM_CLOSE, 0, 0L);<br />
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or the more illegal way is to terminate the process using TerminateProcess.<br />
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However for both of these methods you either need to main window handle, or the process id<br />

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There are several ways thay you can close a program.

The first legal way is to post the main window a message telling it to close down

PostMessage(hMainWindow, WM_CLOSE, 0, 0L);

or the more illegal way is to terminate the process using TerminateProcess.

However for both of these methods you either need to main window handle, or the process id


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I ran the example on my machine, but it doesn't work. Why? My machine is windows xp. <br />
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Thank you!
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I ran the example on my machine, but it doesn't work. Why? My machine is windows xp.

Thank you!

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You can close a program by pressing the Ctrl-Alt-Del.<br />
How can I close a program by Win32 API?
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You can close a program by pressing the Ctrl-Alt-Del.
How can I close a program by Win32 API?

Use API to close a program?

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