How to Kill a process

[Denster]

I'm using a web browser control to view PDF documents with acrobat reader. It is an old program working fine until installing acrobat 7. Now I cant do anything with the document because it seems like the reader is still open. I'm hoping it will be a simple matter of killing the adobe reader process but not sure how to do this. Does anyone know the syntax to do this.

 

[Hypetia]

This has been discussed many times in the past. Do a search for terminate process or kill process in the forms.

Besides that there is also an easy method. Use taskkill.exe or tskill.exe present in Windows XP.

See the following function.
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[tt]
Sub KillProc(ImageName As String, Optional Force As Boolean)
If Force Then
Shell "taskkill /f /im " & ImageName, vbHide
Else
Shell "taskkill /im " & ImageName, vbHide
End If
End Sub[/tt]
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You can call it like this: [tt]KillProc "calc.exe"[/tt]

taskkill.exe has a wide variety of options; like killing the process using its PID. See its command line help.

 

[Denster]

OK this works fine when I step through the code, but running the prog throws up a runtime error.
To get round I'v put a timer in and set it to half a second and it slows it down enough to work - DoEvents doesnt work!.

Not the prettiest solution but happy.

Thanks for the initial code!.