Killing a process...

you will use TerminateProcess(<PID>,<exit code>); if you don't know the PID, you can find it by listing all processes and finding the right one by name: http://delphi.about.com/od/windowsshellapi/l/aa080304a.htm

any code to share, please?
regards
Lopem

well the code is already there on delphi.about.com. you didn't give any specific information so I cannot make a code that will work for anything. if you have the pid of the process then you call terminateprocess on that pid and you're done. if you don't have the pid, then you must search somehow for that application. there are more ways of doing depending on what information you have about that process (executabl path, window title, etc. all are done differently). I gave you a solution for searching through names. if that is nbot the information you hold., then you must tell us what you do know about the process you want to kill.

Hi again, Ciuly, thanks for your rapid answer. I need to kill msn messenger only if it is loaded... I know if the msn messenger is active using:

function ActiveCaption: string;
var
  Len: LongInt;
  Title: string;
  Handle : THandle;
begin
  Result := '';
  Handle := GetForegroundWindow;
  if Handle <> 0 then
  begin
    Len := GetWindowTextLength(Handle) + 1;
    SetLength(Title, Len);
    GetWindowText(Handle, PChar(Title), Len);
    ActiveCaption := TrimRight(Title);
  end;
end;

and calling this function this way:

  Label1.Caption := ActiveCaption;
   if Pos('MSN Messenger', Label1.Caption)<> 0 then
   begin
     //I want here to put the code to kill the msn messenger...
   end;

regards
Manuel Lopez (lopem)

let me try! thanks man.
regards
Lopem