Labview look if task is running?

[NoName1771]

Hi everyone,

I want to write a Look-Up VI,

I have the name of the Program or the Path (like : "C:\User\....\EXCEL.EXE" or firefox.exe)

And want to know if this Program is running at the moment (an maybe kill it).

Has someone an idea?

[Sam_Sharp · Accepted solution]

You can fairly easily do this using .NET:

This will obtain an array of processes by name, and kill the first one it finds.

[NoName1771]

Works perfectly.

As addition:

If you want to know if a task is running at all (not kill it) just take get the array size before the kill method