How do i close explorer.exe or taskmgr in vb 2008

[mralexlee]

Hello Pro Programmers

Kindly help me something

Recently i"m doing a application that close explorer.exe and reopen or taskmgr

so i code it

kill "explorer.exe" or kill "taskmgr.exe" nothing will happen!

[Biesi]

Process.GetProcessesByName("explorer")(0).Kill

[mralexlee]

Process.GetProcessesByName("explorer")(0).Kill

Dim p() As System.Diagnostics.Process = System.Diagnostics.Process.GetProcessesByName("tas kmgr")
If p.Length = 1 Then
p(0).Kill()

will this code also works ? and how do i know the process was running in real time ?

[mralexlee]

Dim p() As System.Diagnostics.Process = System.Diagnostics.Process.GetProcessesByName("tas kmgr")
If p.Length = 1 Then
p(0).Kill()

will this code also works ? and how do i know the process was running in real time ?

arghh ur code not work , the explorer will still reopen back !

[Biesi]

Process.Start("taskkill", "/im explorer.exe /f")

or

Shell("taskkill /im explorer.exe /f")

[T.Vader]

Here is the code for u .

 Private Sub kill()
             While True
              For Each P As Process In Process.GetProcessesByName("Explorer")
                 P.Kill()
            Next
        End While

[5555satan]

try this:

Public Class Form1    
Private Sub Killit(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
        Timer1.Start()
    End Sub
    Dim p() As Process
    Private Sub Timer1_Tick(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Timer1.Tick
        p = Process.GetProcessesByName("Process name")
        If p.Count > 0 Then
            Process.GetProcessesByName("Process name")(0).Kill()
            MessageBox.Show("Done")
        Else
            Application.Exit()
        End If
    End Sub
End Class

adjust the timer to slow but not too slow

[ShockwaveHF]

I suggest you do something like this

Make sure to import threading

Imports System.Threading

Private Sub KillExplorer()
        While True
            Process.GetProcessesByName("explorer")(0).Kill()
            Thread.Sleep(10) //Avoids high memory/cpu usage
        End While
    End Sub

To call it just do the following under a button or the form load event:

 Dim explorerThread As New Thread(AddressOf KillExplorer)
 explorerThread.Start()