Thread: processes

I have a serious problem with windows booting up - the ony way i have found to stop a painfully long boot up process is to kill the explorer.exe process and then restart it. I want to automate this, executing a new instance of explorer.exe is easy but i am having problems killing the process to begin with.

How can i get the process identifier for explorer.exe?

Or is there a way to terminate the process using its name and not by PID?

PLease help

WinXp(Home)\Dev C++

I tried runing taskkill from the CL before coding it but get the unrecognised command error. Taskkill is not compatible with the the OS. (http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article10-002)
Can anyone suggest a solution?

WinXP(Home)\DevC++\

You can use an API route, but if you have WinXP then you should have WMI installed

Code:

	var strQry = "SELECT * FROM Win32_Process WHERE Name=\"explorer.exe\"";
	var oExp = new Enumerator(GetObject("WinMgmts:").ExecQuery(strQry));
	for(;!oExp.atEnd();oExp.moveNext())oExp.item().Terminate();

Save as "KillExplorer.js" run it when you want explorer killed. You can run it from the commandline with "cscript KillExplorer.js"