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Re: How to terminate an application, if you just know the window (HWND)?

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From: Remy Lebeau (TeamB)
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 21:55
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"Yahia El-Qasem" <Yahia.El-Qasem@mgh.metro-ag.de> wrote in message
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> get the ProcessID via GetWindowThreadProcessId and then us something like
:

That is a brute-force termination.  That should only be done at a last
resort when everything else fails.  Terminating the process like that does
not allow it to clean up after itself properly.


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