Process Kill?

[shing]

How would you make a program that kills a system process?

[bartonc]

How would you make a program that kills a system process?

Do you know how to do what you want from the command line? If so, please supply an example. If not, you'll need this info first.

[shing]

i want to be able to process kill explorer.exe (not to be confused with iexplore)

This will allow me to see my background and have any amount of programs on my computer without them being in front of my background { its a secret ;) }

Please help me, Bartonc

[ghostdog74]

if you know the pid, you can use kill(), check this os process management

[bartonc]

i want to be able to process kill explorer.exe (not to be confused with iexplore)

This will allow me to see my background and have any amount of programs on my computer without them being in front of my background { its a secret ;) }

Please help me, Bartonc

I don't recommend what you are talking about. Explorer is listed as "important for the stable running of you operating system". That said:

import os
os.system("taskkill  /im explorer.exe")

might just do it.

system( command)

Execute the command (a string) in a subshell. This is implemented by calling the Standard C function system(), and has the same limitations. Changes to posix.environ, sys.stdin, etc. are not reflected in the environment of the executed command.

On Windows, the return value is that returned by the system shell after running command, given by the Windows environment variable COMSPEC: on command.com systems (Windows 95, 98 and ME) this is always 0; on cmd.exe systems (Windows NT, 2000 and XP) this is the exit status of the command run; on systems using a non-native shell, consult your shell documentation.

[shing]

Can your posts please be put into more comphrensible terms? I'm only 16...

Not to mention I just started Python...

[bartonc]

Can your posts please be put into more comphrensible terms? I'm only 16...

Not to mention I just started Python...

I ran a test. This works to kill a process that you know the name of (in this case "notepad.exe").

>>> import os
>>> os.system("taskkill /im notepad.exe")
0
>>>
os is a standard library module. You can look it up in Start->Programs->Python 2.x-> Python Manuals. Click on the Global Module Index link. Scroll down to os and hit that link. You need to be able to find stuff in the manual and understand what is in there. That way when you see and example, you can look up the part that you don't understand.

[shing]

1. Why does it return a "0"? I tried it on other programs, and, when it fails it returns a "128".

2. What does "/im" do?

[bartonc]

1. Why does it return a "0"? I tried it on other programs, and, when it fails it returns a "128".

0 means "no error"

2. What does "/im" do?

Start->Help and Support: Search taskkill:

TaskkillEnds one or more tasks or processes. Processes can be killed by process ID or image name.

Syntax
taskkill [/s Computer] [/u Domain\User [/p Password]]] [/fi FilterName] [/pid ProcessID]|[/im ImageName] [/f][/t]

Parameters
/s Computer
Specifies the name or IP address of a remote computer (do not use backslashes). The default is the local computer.
/u Domain\User
Runs the command with the account permissions of the user specified by User or Domain\User. The default is the permissions of the current logged on user on the computer issuing the command.
/p Password
Specifies the password of the user account that is specified in the /u parameter.
/fi FilterName
Specifies the types of process(es) to include in or exclude from termination. The following are valid filter names, operators, and values.

[shing]

i dont understand how "IM" stands for TASK KILL....shouldnt it be TK?wait hang on...i saw a line....so um...IM stands for imageName? how strange....anyways.....does imagename just mean the filename?

[shing]

Now look at this:

AVAILABILITY
The taskkill command is an external command that is available in the below Microsoft Operating Systems.

Windows XP Professional


what if my computer is NOT a windows XP Professional? >_>

taken from this URL: http://www.computerhope.com/taskkill.htm

[bartonc]

i dont understand how "IM" stands for TASK KILL....shouldnt it be TK?wait hang on...i saw a line....so um...IM stands for imageName? how strange....anyways.....does imagename just mean the filename?

os.system() calls spawns cmd.exe and pass the string "taskkill /im whatever.exe" to it. Taskkill is a Windows command (it's just an arbitrary string in python - where'd you get TK, anyway?). The "/im" tells killtask that you know the IMage name of the process that you want to kill (as oposed to /pid, when you know the process ID). I hope that's clear enough. All this is in the docurmtation that I have provided.

[bartonc]

Now look at this:

AVAILABILITY
The taskkill command is an external command that is available in the below Microsoft Operating Systems.

Windows XP Professional


what if my computer is NOT a windows XP Professional? >_>

taken from this URL: http://www.computerhope.com/taskkill.htm

Then look up the "command line reference a to z" for your computer. Sorry about that (I hate using command line commands and didn't consider that some might not be on all machines).