Seeing (& killing) Windows processes?

[David Rushby]

Syver Enstad <syver-en+usenet at online.no> wrote in message news:<u1xyxk8ut.fsf at online.no>...
> edd at hotpop.com (Eddie) writes:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Is it possible to check which windows processes (from other programs)
> > are running & kill them.
> > For example, if I want to see if the Internet Explorer process
> > (iexplore.exe) is running & kill it if it is.
> 
> Install Mark Hammond's win32all package.
> 
> Open the help file, see the performance monitor sample (win32pdh).
> 
> Use OpenProcess with the pid that you get, then TerminateProcess with
> the handle that OpenProcess returned

This won't work on versions of Windows prior to the NT family, though.
 I wrote an extension module to kill portably on both the Win9x family
and the NT family.