in reply to Kill running programs

My first suggestion would be one of the Win32::* modules, such as Win32::Process, which appears to be designed for manipulating processes, and includes a method called kill().

Hope that helps.

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Re^2: Kill running programs
by secret (Beadle) on Nov 24, 2005 at 10:39 UTC

    It's better to use Win32::Job as it allows Job control and file handle passing. Perl 5.8 only tho ...