Kill process based on window name (win32)

[drodrig]

I am running the program mentioned below as an NT service on a terminal
server. The service listens on a UDP port for any of a series of
commands. In this case, the command "closeApps <user>" will notify the
service to close all the open apps for user (<user>). So while the code
below works great for a standalone app, it fails as a service because
the window handles of each user are not retrievable (I should say I
don't know how to retrieve them). Is this even possible? I looked at
some of the Windows API calls but nothing stuck out.

Suggestions?

drodrig wrote:
> Thank you Roger. Your advice did the trick. For anyone interested, the
> basic code to terminate a process (politely) would be something like
> this (hwnd is retrieved using win32gui.EnumerateWindows):
>
> # Get the window's process id's
> t, p = win32process.GetWindowThreadProcessId(hwnd)
> # Ask window nicely to close
> win32gui.PostMessage(hwnd, win32con.WM_CLOSE, 0, 0)
> # Allow some time for app to close
> time.sleep(10)
> # If app didn't close, force close
> try:
>     handle = win32api.OpenProcess(win32con.PROCESS_TERMINATE, 0, p)
>     if handle:
>         win32api.TerminateProcess(handle,0)
> 	win32api.CloseHandle(handle)
> except:
>     pass:
>
> Roger Upole wrote:
> > drodrig wrote:
> > > Hi.
> > >
> > > I am trying to close/kill all processes that show visible windows on
> > > Windows XP. So far I've created a script that uses win32gui.EnumWindows
> > > to iterate through all windows, check for which windows are visible,
> > > then send a WM_CLOSE message to the window to request that it closes.
> > > Of course, not all apps want to close nicely. At this point I need to
> > > use something like TerminateProcess to kill the app, but how do I find
> > > the process id (hopefully based on the window id).
> > >
> > > Thanks for any help.
> > >
> >
> > win32process.GetWindowThreadProcessId should do the trick.
> > 
> >        Roger