OSK Process Start/stop - PID.Kill() Fails Because It Says The Process Already Exited
Sep 28, 2010
My app starts an On-Screen Keyboard process like this:
Dim PID as System.Diagnostics.Process
:
PID = Process.Start("C:WindowsSystem32osk.exe")
:
[CODE]...
It seems to work 90% of the time. However, sometimes the PID.Kill() fails because it says the process already exited. At this point the OSK is always still there on screen. Yes, I know my code should be testing to see if the process is still running before trying to kill it, but given that the OSK is still on screen..
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Oct 2, 2010
I am trying to create an app that will perform actions on specific times (much like the Windows Task Scheduler). I am currently using Process.Start() to lunch the file (or exe) required by the task. I am initiating a process by calling a file (an .mp3) and the process starts WMP (since it is the default application), so far so good. Now I wan't to kill that process. I know that it is normal behavior for the Process.Start(string, string) to return nothing (null in C#) in this case. So I am asking how can i close WMP when I called it through Process.Start(string, string)??
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Nov 17, 2009
I've been working on automating our build processes and wanted to come up with a painless way to run unit tests on a regular basis. To that end I've thrown together a simple app that examines the project files and prepares a list of solutions to test. The prototype works in that the tests are executed with the expected results, but as soon as I try to redirect my output the app bombs on the Process.Start call, complaining that a file could not be found.
I've tried several iterations on what I've seen done elsewhere, including several posts here, but I have yet to get this to work properly.
This works:
Private Function WTF(ByVal aWorkingDirectory As String, ByVal aFileName As String, ByVal aArguments As String) As Boolean
Dim lProcess As New Process()
With lProcess
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Jan 2, 2010
what is the method to tell when a user starts or stops a process? My company makes a software package that allows a tie in from vb. I want to make a package to allow me to start and stop the software remotely and to monitor when the software is running or not.Ideally there would be some sort of event in windows when the user starts or stops the software. I imagine there is some sort of way to do this with a timer, but I am sure that windows will have some sort of event process when the program starts. I have googled this and looked through the xtremevbtalk forums for this but I am not quite sure as to what keywords to use.
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Jun 19, 2012
i want to insert all processes that running into listbox, and also how to "kill" process and start process?
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May 9, 2009
My VB.NET Windows form application includes a BackgroundWorker that calls a command-line batch file in a Systems.Diagnostics.Process object, which in turn calls a Java command. If the user cancels, the program kills the cmd.exe properly via process.kill() (it is ok in this case), but the java.exe child process remains, which makes the program hang. I've researched how to kill a parent and child process. It seems there are complicated ways to do this via WMI or Win32 API. But I'm hoping there is a simpler VB.NET way.
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Apr 4, 2010
find a way to detect if a process has exited and then restart it. The problem is that I have multiple process' of the same name and exe. finding a way to id each process and detect if that specific process has exited then restart it.
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Feb 15, 2009
When I press the exit button (the red X) the process is still running in the system manager. So opening it more than once will end up meaning it will slowly start crashing the computer (if you don't restart).
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Feb 21, 2011
I have a program that starts another program after setting the regkeys basically the program continually syncs the calandar of outlook and another application.I set the regkeys than launch the c:sync.exe app. I have tried a simple process.start and launching the process as a thread and they both do the same thing: The other process starts and works as it should but my main program goes "White screen" or "not responding" until the process.start has exited.
I want the process.start to run in the background so if users click in my main app it responds and truly that they can access the context menu of my main app from the taskbar while the process.start is running.
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May 27, 2010
Trying to create a button that when clicked will check to see if a certain process image is running and if that process is running give the process focus. If the process is not running then start the application.
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Aug 8, 2010
Whats happening is I run the code below and get the following error "The system cannot find the file specified". I've read that with UseShellExecute set to false that you can't use WorkingDirectory.
Dim Password As String = "password"
Dim SecureStringPassword As New System.Security.SecureString
For Each c As Char In Password
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Dec 8, 2011
How would I go about starting a new process without it being the child of the calling process.
Example:
Main Program (Caller.exe)
process.start("file.exe")
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Jun 24, 2009
i use System.Diagnostics.Process.Start to run a process
example :
Dim p As New System.Diagnostics.Process
p = System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("D:ProjectApplication.exe")
it works perfectly during run time. but after i deploy to server.... this code did nothing, it did not call out this process
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Oct 15, 2011
I am trying to kill a process by using the following code
Dim aprocess As System.Diagnostics.Process
aprocess = System.Diagnostics.Process.GetProcessesByName("E:\preview.mp3")
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Jan 16, 2011
I have built a web browser using vb.net and I want the user to use this only, that is I would like to restrict user form using any other browsers.So the question is, how to kill a process (IE) the moment user opens it. I am able to get all the processes and able to kill the current process. But the current process is always my app.
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Feb 22, 2010
I've launched wampserver using vb.net when the application loads. My problem is, how do I kill the wamp server process when I exit the program.
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Jun 22, 2010
This is what I have so far.[code]...
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Jun 2, 2012
On my exit button I have application.exit but this does not kill my application all teh time as sometimes I can see the process still running when I go into task manager, is there a way to kill the process when i close my application?
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Jul 29, 2010
I want to kill explorer.exe process in vb.net
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May 18, 2009
I am looking for a way to kill a system process.my program is printing a word doc but i have noticed that one it has printed the process Winword.exe is still running in the task manager!does anyone know how once i have printed and closed word i can kill the process?
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Mar 11, 2012
I've been doing some research on controlling another exe without Process.Kill() .
The reason why is that I want to have a main controller program that starts and terminates my other exes . I can't use Process.Kill() it just kills my exe without giving it a chance to save data or handle the form closing event . I want to separate my program to multiple exes to prevent a scenario which is if one of the exe hangs , all the other exe hangs .
When the termination event or signal is received , then the exe would do a rollback or handle the closing part to prevent data loss etc .
So far , I've only found some methods of doing that .
1) using TxT files to communicate between exes.
2) Inter-Process Communication (IPC) using name pipes .
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May 28, 2009
I am developing a large, multi-windowed application. It creates a console using AllocConsole and uses it to dump various information useful for diagnosing and debugging situations with the hardware. The program drives sensitive scientific equipment, and CANNOT be allowed to quit abruptly in midstream. Unfortunately, clicking the close box on the console window does exactly that.
1. Suppress or disable the close box on the console window
2. Trap that event, or
3. Adjust something so that my process does not depend upon its console for its life?
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Dec 22, 2007
Let's say i create 3 different process like this:
For i = 1 To 3
im pr As New Process
pr.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = True
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Jun 22, 2010
How to kill a process?[code]...
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Jun 22, 2010
I need to kill a specific process, i got ListBox1, and Button1 and Button2
Button1 Gets Process which is notepad, When Button1 is clicked in the ListBox1 it shows the Main titled of the windows, Example Notepad is running and his title is Untitled - Notepad in Listbox1 will show the title, And the Button2 Should kill the process of the selected item in the ListBox1, Like i Got 2 Notepad open, 1 with titled 1 and other with title 2, when i select in ListBox1 the one that says 1 and i click button2 it should kill the notepad process that have the titled 1 no all the notepads.
Button1 Code
Dim iGet() As Process = Process.GetProcessesByName("notepad")
Me.ListBox1.Items.Clear()
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But it closes all notepad process, not even selecting the iem from ListBox1 and then Button i need it..
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May 27, 2009
I'm using the following code to kill a program: Dim pProcess() As Process = System.Diagnostics.Process.GetProcessesByName("myprogram.exe")
For Each p As Process In pProcess p.Kill() Next
At one point it's running twice and the above code kills em all including the one currently running, resulting in an access error. Is there any way to say, kill the older myprogram.exe only. Compare both of them and see which one was executed first and terminate this one, keeping the later one running.
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Dec 15, 2009
I am making an updater that downloads some files from a webservice and copies them to a directory, overwriting old files.
It works ok, but what if a user for whatever reason has opened a file. It will throw an error, because the file is in use.
Is there a way to determine which process is using the file? Then I will be able to kill it.
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Jun 9, 2011
I have am building an uninstall program and can't get the process to stop so that the files can be deleted. I am using code that I copied from a sample and it works fine with any process as long as there is no space in the name.
works
Dim process As System.Diagnostics.Process = Nothing
Dim psi As New ProcessStartInfo
[code]......
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Jan 18, 2006
I would like to know is there a way to kill a SQL Server process? Can anyone show me the direction on doing this?
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Feb 18, 2011
If I want to abort or end this operation, myprocess.kill() does not work I'm thinking that the Cmd box gets killed but tsmuxer remains alive to fight another day.
myapp= joinstreams.cmd which is C:\tsmuxer.exe "C:\workSeamM2TS.meta" "C:\workSeamM2TS.m2ts"
Dim myProcess As New Process()
myProcess.StartInfo.WorkingDirectory = Application.StartupPath[code].....
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