Kill process based on window name (win32)

[Roger Upole]

Trying to do this for different sessions is going to be much more
complicated. Each terminal service session has its own
window station, and there may be more than one desktop per
window station. You'll need several functions from the win32service
module for accessing window stations and desktops,
and the win32ts module (which was just added in Pywin32 build 209)
for terminal services functions.

As a start:
    win32ts.WTSEnumerateSessions to list the sessions
    win32ts.WTSQuerySessionInformation to get the username and window
        station name for the session
    win32service.OpenWindowStation
    EnumDesktops to get a list of all desktops in the window station
    win32service.OpenDesktop to access each desktop
    EnumDesktopWindows to get handles to all windows on the desktop

You might be better off to use win32ts.WTSLogoffSession to kill the session
altogether.

        Roger


"drodrig" <drodrig at magicbrain.com> wrote in message news:1155482243.307372.6350 at 75g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
>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
>