Windows pid kill

[Bob Rasmussen]

There is another approach to killing processes in Windows. A process is 
associated with a main window (handle). If you post a WM_QUIT message to 
this window, the process should do a more orderly shutdown. Windows 
provides the call PostQuitMessage for this purpose. This results in a more 
orderly termination, although quitting is not guaranteed. Think of it sort 
of like sending a SIGHUP, a hangup signal, as with "kill -1" in Unix.

This might help you look in other areas. That's all I have off the top of 
my head.

Regards,
....Bob Rasmussen,   President,   Rasmussen Software, Inc.

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