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From: Remy Lebeau (TeamB)
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 00:29

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"Robert E Mitchell, Sr." <n2963p@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> I want to write a program that will detect if any of the
> programs are already running

    How To Enumerate Applications Using Win32 APIs
    http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q175030

> and if they are, shut them down.

Once you find the desired .exe process, you will have its process ID.  You
can use OpenProcess() and TerminateProcess() to kill it.


Gambit

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