Terminating a Program Using Java

Question

If a user executes foo.exe on his computer, is there a way to terminate foo.exe using a Java program?

Edit: To clear things up, I am talking about a process that was not created by the Java app.

This may be relevant: http://stackoverflow.com/q/81902/576139 — Chris Eberle, Dec 16 '11 at 05:20

score 4 · Accepted Answer · edited Dec 16 '11 at 06:29

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Looks like you are on Windows .

The command to kill a process is: taskill or tskill depending your Windows version .

tskill yourprocessname

executed by java

Runtime.getRuntime().exec(new String[]{"tskill", "foo"});

edited Dec 16 '11 at 06:29

answered Dec 16 '11 at 05:14

Dapeng

So you would run this with the same arguments you would use in the command line? (taskkill /im "foo.exe") – Anonymous Person Dec 16 '11 at 05:21

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