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.

Answer 1

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"});