Kill process in Win7 - anyone done this with EG?

[Livin]

At times I cannot get EG to do a good job finding the XBMC window and close it as it should. So after a period of time XBMC will hang (I get a black screen) and I must kill the process manually. As you know if you use Win7, it tries to have the app exit gracefully and/or "find a solution" when you use task manager to kill the process.

I'd like to simply kill the process with EG by using a IR command.

Anyone know a simple way to kill the process?

[Bartman]

you can use the taskkill command line utitlity

[Livin]

any examples/tips on how to have EG try to close the EXE and if it fails, after a period of time - like 60 seconds, have it kill the process?

[Bartman]

have a look into the sendmessagetimeout function to let the application finish and hard kill the process afterwards if it fails.

[brille]

if you just want to kill a process you can use pskill - i use it in win7 (i have EG run a .bat file with severel pskill commands in it)

google can find the utility for you.

br
Brille

[Livin]

have a look into the sendmessagetimeout function to let the application finish and hard kill the process afterwards if it fails.

Is this a Python function? I could not find any info on it.

[Bartman]

have a look into the sendmessagetimeout function to let the application finish and hard kill the process afterwards if it fails.

Is this a Python function? I could not find any info on it.

win32gui.SendMessageTimeout is a wrapper for the windows function