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How to effectively kill a process in C++ (Win32)?

I am creating a program that has to do an important task – and it may (rarely) have a resource conflict with another program (let’s say a.exe) that users may have inadvertently started.
What I would like to do is kill a.exe if it is running, before doing the rest of the work.
Is there any way to stop another program/process from running, from c++ (running under Windows) ?
I was hoping that there may be something in the beautiful boost…
Thank you.

Answer 1

If you’re sure the image name is a.exe then it’s very simple:

system("taskkill /F /IM a.exe >nul 2>&1");