Hi guys this is my first post on these forums im a newbie to VB6

I am trying to make a simple program with one button

When the button is pressed I want it to kill the process explorer.exe

Heres the code I have already

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Declarations
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Public Declare Function TerminateProcess Lib "kernel32" Alias "TerminateProcess" (ByVal hProcess As Long, ByVal uExitCode As Long) As Long
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Code
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Private Sub Kill_Click()

TerminateProcess explorer.exe

End Sub
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Can anyone explain to me what I need to do in order for this to happen ?
Tnx in advance,
Nova

hi there..

i dont know why you wanna kill the explorer.. sounds weird, but you dont send a name to terminateprocess.. you need the handle for the proccess.. and you dont have it since you dont start explorer by hand.. could be a little tricky to get it...



HTH

Gonzalo

I have made a simular program using batch,and now that im learning VB6 id like to make the same program in vb

Killing and refreshing explorer.exe helps my laptop to load trayicons on startup its a really old laptop and doing this cuts the time for the icons to appear in half.

So dose anyone know of a way I can kill explorer.exe :D

now it been a while since i used vb6
but i rember sumthink like this declare handle as a long
then what window (explorer in this cae)

Handle = FindWindow(vbNullString, Caption)
SendMessage Handle, WM_CLOSE, 0&, 0&

should be sumthink like that but has been a while since i used vb6 u should move to ther .net framework everythink so easy i perfer c# now but vb.net and c# are very simular only took me like 4 days 2 conver but makes thes jobs so easy simple

 string processName = "explorer";
            Process[] processes = Process.GetProcessesByName(processName);
            foreach (Process process in processes)
            {
                process.Kill();}

and in vb.net its practicly the same