This tag refers to the action of terminating (aborting) a process.
Use this tag for questions related to killing a specific process on a system.
Questions tagged [kill-process]
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Kill EXEL.EXE process while using Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel
Possible Duplicate:
Killing an interop Application process
I am using Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel in order to get data from excel. Even though i clear the COM objects it still leaves some instances of EXEL.EXE in the background.Check my code…
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Terminate subprocess
I'm curious, why the code below freezes. When I kill python3 interpreter, "cat" process remains as a zombie. I expect the subprocess will be terminated before main process finished.
When I send manually SIGTERM to cat /dev/zero, the process is…
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In VB.NET check for changes in a file launched with process.start()
I'm developing a vbnet/c#.NET based application that opens files with different applications(excel, word, etc).
The application is launched using Dim app As Process = Process.Start(ProcessProperties)
Now, when I have to terminate the process I use…
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How to kill the cherrypy process?
I am using cherrypy in python script.I think I have to register a callback method from the main application so that i can stop cherrypy main process from a worker thread,but how do i kill the main process within the that process.
So i want to know…
user1320035
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C# Winform The process still on Windows Task list manager after close programme
why The process still on Windows Task list manager after close programme ?
i use login Form.cs
[STAThread]
static void Main()
{
Application.EnableVisualStyles();
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Kill Several Processes In VB?
I currently have the following up in VS 2010
Dim myProcess() As Process = System.Diagnostics.Process.GetProcessesByName("calc")
For Each myKill As Process In myProcess
myKill.Kill()
However I cannot seem to get it to kill more…
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I want to kill steam.exe and some extra steam process but I don't know how to do it in VB.NET
Private Sub Button2_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Button2.Click
Dim steamkill() As String = {"steamwebhelper.exe", "steam.exe", "steamservice.exe"}
Dim proc
For a As Integer = 0 To steamkill.Length Step 1
proc…
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How to kill Windows service process stuck at starting?
I have a problem with one service which stuck at starting stage when I try to start such service, and I am not able to terminate such process. I know that restart is a solution, but server can't be restart couple times everyday, also any additional…
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How can I terminate a process and verify its not running anymore in C?
I want to fully terminate a process on Linux C89.
The flow is: check if its already dead, if not, let it die peacefully using sigterm and wait 10 seconds till it dies. If its still alive - SIGKILL it.
int TerminateProcessIMP(pid_t process_to_kill)
{…
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How to kill 'invisible' process running on port
On a linux machine, am trying to start Glassfish server.
./startserv
This returns the following message:
There is a process already running using the admin port 4848 -- it is probably another instance of a Glassfish server
Have tried to identify…
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How kill process ID remotely Bash
On linux device, the following process ID runs:
I'm trying to kill the process ids related to ads2 (shown in the image above) remotely (through a bash script that runs on another device). So I tried:
ssh nvidia@"id-address" "kill pgrep ads2"
where…
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How to terminate/killall a program in python
The first simple answer to the Linux equivalent killall(ProgramName)
The program is to be a toggle program. I can launch Firefox/program.
def tolaunch(program):
os.system("firefox")
When launched I wish to save the name of program launched, in…
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How would I kill a process outside it's loop in a winform application?
here is my code:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using…
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Shell script to kill a process in specific time with process name and time as input
I need a shell script to kill a particular running process after a specific time by getting the process name and time as input.
I'm using centos machine i've tried the script but couldn't complete on killing the process on particular…
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How to know a Windows Store App has terminated in C# or VB?
I know Windows Store Apps are executed in isolated mode (a sandbox). Hence I start an App (e.g. Microsoft Photos) by using IApplicationActivationManager.ActivateForFile, the image provided gets displayed and the return value of the function gives me…
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