How to close/terminate/kill an instance of a application with VBS?

Question

I've tried the following code, suggested on several posts, and it didn´t work.

Set x =  GetObject(,"xxx.Application")
x.quit

Try simple `lResult = CreateObject("WScript.Shell").Run("taskkill /f /im MyProcess.exe", 0, True)` to terminate all processes with specified name. — omegastripes, Sep 08 '18 at 06:43

Stein Åsmul · Accepted Answer · 2018-09-10T13:58:32.293

I think I used WMI at one point, and that worked OK - provided the script runs with the access rights required to kill the processes in question (in other words admin rights for system processes, user rights for user context processes - I suppose there could be NT Privileges / NT Rights (system wide privileges) and custom ACL permission settings (access control list - attached to objects) involved as well - the configuration of which might vary from site to site):

Note: the below script will kill all Notepad.exe processes! (unless access is denied)

strComputer = "."
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _
    & "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")

Set colProcessList = objWMIService.ExecQuery _
    ("Select * from Win32_Process Where Name = 'Notepad.exe'")

For Each objProcess in colProcessList
    objProcess.Terminate()
Next

Some Links:

Close an application using VBScript (several other options)
Kill a process which says “Access denied” (auperuser - Terminate Process ACL)
Unkillable Processes

Great. Look out for all those complications. Windows is getting crazier and crazier :-). — Stein Åsmul, Sep 10 '18 at 21:05

How to close/terminate/kill an instance of a application with VBS?

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