Re: howto kill a windows process by name ?

Adam Pletcher wrote:
Take a look at "killProcName.py", in the win32 extension package.

- Adam

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Subject: howto kill a windows process by name ?

hello,

is there a library to kill a windows process by name ?

thanks,
Stef Mientki
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thanks Adam,
that indeed it works,
but googling for killProcName.py I found messages about it being slow,
and indeed it's slow,
and that same google search turned up a faster method, see below.

thanks again,
Stef Mientki



import time
import win32api, win32pdhutil, win32con
import win32pdh, string


# ***********************************************************************
# ***********************************************************************
def GetAllProcesses():
object = "Process"
items, instances = win32pdh.EnumObjectItems(None,None,object, win32pdh.PERF_DETAIL_WIZARD)
return instances
# ***********************************************************************


# ***********************************************************************
# ***********************************************************************
def GetProcessID ( name ) :
object = "Process"
items, instances = win32pdh.EnumObjectItems(None,None,object, win32pdh.PERF_DETAIL_WIZARD)

val = None
if name in instances :
hq = win32pdh.OpenQuery()
hcs = []
item = "ID Process"
path = win32pdh.MakeCounterPath( (None,object,name, None, 0, item) )
hcs.append(win32pdh.AddCounter(hq, path))
win32pdh.CollectQueryData(hq)
time.sleep(0.01)
win32pdh.CollectQueryData(hq)

for hc in hcs:
type, val = win32pdh.GetFormattedCounterValue(hc, win32pdh.PDH_FMT_LONG)
win32pdh.RemoveCounter(hc)
win32pdh.CloseQuery(hq)
return val
# ***********************************************************************


"""
THIS IS SLOW !!
def Kill_Process ( process ) :
#get process id's for the given process name
pids = win32pdhutil.FindPerformanceAttributesByName ( process )
for p in pids:
handle = win32api.OpenProcess(win32con.PROCESS_TERMINATE, 0, p) #get process handle
win32api.TerminateProcess(handle,0) #kill by handle
win32api.CloseHandle(handle) #close api
"""

# ***********************************************************************
# ***********************************************************************
def Kill_Process_pid ( pid ) :
handle = win32api.OpenProcess(win32con.PROCESS_TERMINATE, 0, pid) #get process handle
win32api.TerminateProcess(handle,0) #kill by handle
win32api.CloseHandle(handle) #close api
# ***********************************************************************


# ***********************************************************************
# ***********************************************************************
def Kill_Process ( name ) :
pid = GetProcessID ( name)
if pid:
Kill_Process_pid ( pid )
# ***********************************************************************


# ***********************************************************************
# ***********************************************************************
if __name__ == "__main__":
a = GetAllProcesses()
print a

process = 'UPD'
Kill_Process ( process )

# ***********************************************************************



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