completely Silent process killer

[Brando569]

does anyone know of a completely silent process killer? im currently using PSkill and it has a huge banner whenever it starts up and screws up the look of my batchfile output screen also it says "process <process name> killed successfully" i dont want any of this, i was just wondering if anyone knew of an alternate program that i could use....

[dman]

http://www.beyondlogic.org/solutions/proce...processutil.htm

gives a little feedback but no banner popup.

[dman]

I found some sample code on the web to kill processes. I have been working with the process management API's on another project when I found this. I compiled it for you... completely silent. Just call kp.exe <process name to kill>

EDIT: removed debug symbols (ref to msvc60d.dll)

kp.zip

[PsycoUnc]

-dman, is that proc killer OS-independent? (I use win98se)... ?

[dman]

No, sorry. It uses NTDLL.dll. NT/2000/XP only.

[Alanoll]

you could also try taskkill.exe as well. It's built into Windows XP.

[jrxnelson]

tskill works in XP.

But .. I never knew of 'taskkill' .. that looks sooo much better!!!

Thanks Alanoll

[dman]

@alanoll,

he wanted something completely silent... no feedback. don't see a switch for that in taskkill.

[Martin Zugec]

Almost every killer can be silenced by using redirection to nul

Example for XP:

wmic process where name="process_name" call terminate > nul

[Loras]

@alanoll,

he wanted something completely silent... no feedback. don't see a switch for that in taskkill.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

He can use CMDOW (http://www.commandline.co.uk/cmdow/index.html)

and taskkill together. CMDOW must be copied to System32 folder...

CMD should be:

cmdow @ /HID

taskkill /F /IM program.exe

[Martin Zugec]

2Loras: I think he is quite satisfied with command windows - he want to hide output from kill command...

[Loras]

Can he turn off monitor?

[dman]

Almost every killer can be silenced by using redirection to nul

Good point Soulin. Guess a programmers first reaction is to compile some code.

[Brando569]

thanks guys for all your input! and thanks for compiling that for me dman, want me to drive over and get it

[dman]

want me to drive over and get it

LOL, I was over your way Sunday at the Millville Air Show.... Way Cool B)

Hope you can use the Proc Killer.