How to close a program that u have opened? :~~.

[Anonymous]

Hello everybody,

i have a code that open PDFCreator,

but i have to close it, and i dunno how can i do that.

i use to open: Shell ("C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\PDFCreator.exe")

any idea guys?

Thanks for any. 😃

[arcticad]

Public Sub killTask()
killString = "taskkill /F /IM PDFCreator.exe"
Call Shell(killString, vbHide)
End Sub

[Mike.Wohletz]

       Dim processID As Integer = Shell("C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\PDFCreator.exe")

        ' do something with the process here

      
        'end the process
        Try
            Dim process As Process = System.Diagnostics.Process.GetProcessById(processID)
            process.Kill()
            process.Dispose()
        Catch ex As Exception

        End Try

[Anonymous]

I didi something ugly,

but it worked,

i've created a.bat file with tskill, and i run the tskill from vba =P

is a long way, but i dont need procession speed, so it worked fine.