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Kill Windows Tasks from LabVIEW

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Overview

This example shows how to use the LabVIEW System Exec.vi function to kill a task in Windows OS

 

Description

Using the LabVIEW System Exec.vi function you can make a taskkill call to the Windows OS. The attached VI takes the task name as a string and will kill the named task through the Windows console. Task names are as they appear in the task manager

In the attached VI the first part of the command is provided.  You simply needs to input the process name and the VI appends the strings to make the full command.

 

Requirements

LabVIEW Base Development System 2012 or compatible

 

Steps to Implement or Execute Code

  1. Enter the task name to be ended, make sure to include the .exe suffix if needed
  2. Run the VI

 

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VEEDAY
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How do we use keyboard shotcuts like Ctrl+C and insert it to terminate a process?

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I created a vi to kill Python System Exec.vi calls that you may have found to have hung in MacOS (I am using 11.6 Big Sur)

It looks for the PID (process identifier) number of a single Python.app occurrence that may exist and then kills it so that the Python System Exec.vi call that hung releases.

You can use it to kill other System Exec.vi -type calls if you use the ps -ax command in Terminal and see which unique line item it creates, and put it in the "String to scan for" field.

 

There are probably more elegant and simpler ways to do it, but, this is what I have.

http://soundboardmaterial.pbworks.com/w/file/147204078/Find%20Python%27s%20PID%20and%20Kill.vi

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