Killing Win32 process

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Hi,

I tried the following code snippet to kill a Win32 process:

def killQTP
   wmi = WIN32OLE.connect("winmgmts://")
   processes = wmi.ExecQuery("select * from Win32_process")
   for process in processes do
      if process.Name.include? "QTPro.exe" then
         puts "Name: #{process.Name}"
         puts "Process ID: #{process.Pid}"
         puts process.Terminate
      elsif process.Name.include? "star.exe" then
         puts "Name: #{process.Name}"
         puts "Process ID: #{process.Pid}"
         puts process.Terminate
      end
   end
   puts "done killing QTP"
end

But the process is not getting killed when I execute the above and
simply gives "exit code: 0"

Can anyone help in case I am missing anything to execute the above code
or is there any other way of killing a Win32 process?

Thanks,
Anukul

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Anukul Singhal wrote:

Hi,

I tried the following code snippet to kill a Win32 process:

def killQTP
   wmi = WIN32OLE.connect("winmgmts://")
   processes = wmi.ExecQuery("select * from Win32_process")
   for process in processes do
      if process.Name.include? "QTPro.exe" then
         puts "Name: #{process.Name}"
         puts "Process ID: #{process.Pid}"
         puts process.Terminate
      elsif process.Name.include? "star.exe" then
         puts "Name: #{process.Name}"
         puts "Process ID: #{process.Pid}"
         puts process.Terminate
      end
   end
   puts "done killing QTP"
end

But the process is not getting killed when I execute the above and
simply gives "exit code: 0"

Can anyone help in case I am missing anything to execute the above code
or is there any other way of killing a Win32 process?

Thanks,
Anukul

Change

  if process.Name.include? "QTPro.exe" then

to

  if process.Name.downcase.include? "qtpro.exe" then

and change

  process.Pid

to

  process.ProcessId

FYI, This code will output a list of properties for a given process, and
their values:

  for property in process.Properties_ do
    puts property.Name + ': ' + property.Value.to_s
  end

Hope that helps.

David

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Hi,

I tried the following code snippet to kill a Win32 process:

def killQTP
  wmi = WIN32OLE.connect("winmgmts://")
  processes = wmi.ExecQuery("select * from Win32_process")
  for process in processes do
     if process.Name.include? "QTPro.exe" then
        puts "Name: #{process.Name}"
        puts "Process ID: #{process.Pid}"
        puts process.Terminate
     elsif process.Name.include? "star.exe" then
        puts "Name: #{process.Name}"
        puts "Process ID: #{process.Pid}"
        puts process.Terminate
     end
  end
  puts "done killing QTP"
end

But the process is not getting killed when I execute the above and
simply gives "exit code: 0"

Can anyone help in case I am missing anything to execute the above code
or is there any other way of killing a Win32 process?

You might look at win32-process, but if you want to use WMI, remember
WMI queries are basically just SQL.

# this code

require 'win32ole'

  wmi = WIN32OLE.connect("winmgmts://")

  # I only mixed case to illustrate that case is not important
  query = "select * from Win32_process where name='NoTePaD.exe' OR
name='cAlC.exe'"

  processes = wmi.ExecQuery(query)

  processes.each do |process|
     puts "Name: #{process.Name}"
     puts "Process ID: #{process.ProcessID}"
     puts process.Terminate
  end

  puts "done killing things"

# returns

Name: notepad.exe
Process ID: 3564
0
Name: calc.exe
Process ID: 5712
0
done killing things

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On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 4:46 AM, Anukul Singhal <anukul.singhal@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks,
Anukul
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Are you guys sure that anything

  object.Upcased.Name

will work, rather than

  object.upcased.name

?

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