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chpicker
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- Apr 10, 2001
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What you want to do would require some API calls, I believe. I wouldn't recommend that you force all of the user's apps to shut down, but you should be able to at least scan to see what programs are running and only continue if the list contains no extra programs in it.
Hopefully someone else can post some sample code (I don't use API calls myself) but if not, maybe knowing that this is what you must do can help you find what you need.
Good luck!
Hopefully someone else can post some sample code (I don't use API calls myself) but if not, maybe knowing that this is what you must do can help you find what you need.
Good luck!
If you go to the VFP Download area on the UT ( and put Enumerate in the Title box. You'll get back a couple of Utilities. "Enumerate Processes in Windows" even has a demo that looks a lot like the task manager's process
list in Windows NT/2000/XP.
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list in Windows NT/2000/XP.
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