Killing zombies processes of Internet Explorer

[Israel]

Good afternoon,

Is there any way to kill zombies processes internet explorer? I'm using the ProcessClose and ProcessWaitClose functions but is not working, it seems that does not recognize the processes.

Thank you

[kylomas]

Israel,

Can you post what you have tried?

Kylomas

[ViciousXUSMC]

I imagine it may because you have multiple processes with the same name and just using the process name will not close each different PID.

To work around that you can do something like this.

Local $sString = "name"

Local $list = ProcessList()
For $i = 1 To $list[0][0]
    If StringRegExp($list[$i][0], "^" & $sString & "\d+\.exe$") Then ProcessClose($list[$i][1])
Next

Or if you suck at RegEx like me StringinStr() works as well.

Local $list = ProcessList()
For $i = 1 To $list[0][0]
    If StringinStr($list[$i][0], "notepad") Then ProcessClose($list[$i][1])
Next

You can test what I am talking about by changing the last "1" in the ProcessClose() to 0 and then it closes the process by name instead of PID, open more than one notepad and you will see it close one instead of all of them. 

Edited August 10, 2015 by ViciousXUSMC

[kylomas]

Hmmm, perhaps by "zombie" the OP means child processes.  That is why I asked for what he/she has tried.

[Israel]

the problem was that he had more cases opened it.

I used the ViciousXUSMC functions and worked here.

Thank you so much

[Israel]

I'm another problem now.

IE when you are with an open window it becomes the parent process, and the other tabs or windows that are created become children of this process.

Kill all processes before creating my window is not my solution, since in a situation where I need another IE window open it will close automatically.

I need to kill the process I create at the end of my test, so far I can get the id of the parent process, but I can not take the child process that was created.

The function I use is _WingGetProcess

Any suggestion ?

[kylomas]

Israel,

1.  How are these IE instances created?

2. Answer post #2

3. What is _WingGetProcess?

Kylomas

[Israel]

local $oie = _IECreate("www.myapp.com.br")
local $window = WinWait("[CLASS:IEFrame]", "", 10)

local $process = WinGetProcess(WinGetHandle($window))

; the application does what it has to do

; when finished
_IEAction($oie,"quit")
ProcessClose($process)

Kylomas,

My code is the one above, can not go much in detail because it is a professional application. My goal is to kill a process that I created, but this process can be my son

[JohnOne]

One option is to implement _WinAPI_CreateJobObject() and _WinAPI_TerminateJobObject()

[EmilyLove]

ProcessCloseAll("iexplorer.exe")
Func ProcessCloseAll($Process);Same as ProcessClose, except it closes all pid for that Process name.
    Global $Processes = ProcessList($Process);get all currently running Processes
    ;OP, ShellExecute whatever window or program you need to remain open. You should also add a Sleep() timer after this line. 
    For $i = 1 To $Processes[0][0]; For Each found unique PID
        ProcessClose($Processes[$i][1]);Close Process
    Next
EndFunc

This is the function I use to close multiple pid sharing the same process name at once. I placed a comment where you should ShellExecute() if you need that process to stay open(this will not work if your app required the parent PID to remain open).

 

[JohnOne]

Thing is, that will not only close child processes, but also siblings, parents, grandparents and non related processes.

Edited August 12, 2015 by JohnOne