in reply to End a process in the Task manager

Use WIN32::Process::Info and get process ID, then use the process ID to kill it like below 
 
Win32::Process::KillProcess($pid,0);

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make sure u know what u r trying to kill. Hope this will give u an idea

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Re^2: End a process in the Task manager
by Nalina (Monk) on Jun 03, 2005 at 09:41 UTC
    Thanks for the reply. Can I install WIN32::Process::Info and Win32::Process::KillProcess using ppm? if so please give me the repository url from where i can install it.
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      ppm> search Win32::Process::Info
Searching in Active Repositories
  1. Win32-Process-Info [1.005] Get information on arbitrary processes
+ in Windows NT
ppm> describe 1
====================
Package 1:
    Name: Win32-Process-Info
 Version: 1.005
  Author: Tom Wyant (wyant@cpan.org)
   Title: Win32-Process-Info
Abstract: Get information on arbitrary processes in Windows NT
Location: bribes
Available Platforms:
       1. MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
       2. MSWin32-x86-multi-thread-5.8
====================
ppm> rep describe bribes
Describing Active Repository 8:
    Name: bribes
Location: http://www.bribes.org/perl/ppm/
    Type: Webpage

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        Thank u very much. I installed Win32::Process::Info. now if I try to kill a process, as follows 
        $pid = 1768;
 Win32::Process::KillProcess($pid,0);

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        I get an error 
        Undefined subroutine &Win32::Process::KillProcess called at C:\perlscr
+ipts\pidin
fo.pl line 51, <DATA> line 164.

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        how do I kill the process?
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