[python-win32] list/kill processes on Win9x and NT+...

Gabriel Genellina gagenellina at softlab.com.ar
Wed Jul 13 04:46:15 CEST 2005


At Tuesday 12/7/2005 14:04, Ray Schumacher wrote:

>I had looked over the methods to list/kill processes on Win32, and could 
>not (yet) find a "pure" Python way to do it that works on 9x, since I 
>could not get win32pdhutil to work on 98.
>So, I combined subprocess.py and pv.exe from
>http://www.xmlsp.com/pview/PrcView.zip
>and wrote a quick app to kill unauthorized process and compiled with py2exe.
>
>Does anyone have a way to list/kill without the external process that 
>works in all 9x and XP?

PDH will work for NT, 2000 and up. For Win95/98 you can enumerate processes 
using ToolHelp32: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q175030/


Gabriel Genellina
Softlab SRL 



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