ProcessKill 0.0.0.5 - My FARR2 Plugin Contest Submission #4

[taichimaster]

ProcessKill 0.0.0.5

Hey jgpaiva, this one is for you

This plugin displays a list of active processes and allows user to kill the selected process. Should work on 2K/XP/Vista.  Haven't tried on the 9x systems.  Actually haven't tested it much at all....so please report bugs.

It's actually pretty simple to do by following this article: A Safer Alternative to TerminateProcess()
 
Thought about extracting the icons from the EXE instead of showing a generic one for all processes, but the SDK currently only allow icons by filenames.  So I would have to save all icons to disk and pass them to the host (kind of troublesome).  EDIT: DONE, thanks to mouser's suggestion!

Installation:
Extract the zip file to the farr2 plugins directory then reload the plugins from the plugins listing screen.

Screenshot:







Version History

v0.0.0.1 (July 6th, 2007)
Initial Release

v0.0.0.2 (July 6th, 2007)   
[NEW] Added Option to Extract and Display Processes Icons -- (might have slight performance decrease)

v0.0.0.3 (July 6th, 2007)
[NEW] Added process id and process owner to the status bar text
[FIX] Plugged a handle leak

Comments and constructive criticisms are welcome!

Thanks to hamradio for the beautiful icons!!!! 

[mouser]

taichi, try returning the full path to the target exe as your custom icon name.

[taichimaster]

Sweet!! I shall try that, thanks.

[taichimaster]

Ok done...it seems to be a tad bit slower when extracting the icons though (with +sall), so I made it an option. 

[jgpaiva]

Amazing!!!! 
It works great Credits on the way

Mouser: isn't there a way for a plugin to show it's results with "+sall"?
I only have farr to show 10 results, but that's obviously too less for this plugin.

[mouser]

yes, taichi and i agreed i will be adding an option for a plugin to say to default to showing all results.

[rbeeger]

Hi taichimaster,

This and your other three plugins are great. Thanks for developing them 
A feature request: Could you add the name of the owner of a process to the output in the status bar that is shown for a selected entry. I don't use the location column, but would like to see this info in FARR. Would it also be possible to show the status of a process in the status bar (e.g. is it still responding or has it somehow crashed.) In task manager this is shown on the application tab.

Cheers,
  Robert

[taichimaster]

Hi taichimaster,

This and your other three plugins are great. Thanks for developing them 
A feature request: Could you add the name of the owner of a process to the output in the status bar that is shown for a selected entry. I don't use the location column, but would like to see this info in FARR. Would it also be possible to show the status of a process in the status bar (e.g. is it still responding or has it somehow crashed.) In task manager this is shown on the application tab.

Cheers,
  Robert

-rbeeger (July 06, 2007, 11:18 AM)

You are welcome Robert.  Mouser did a great job on the Plugin SDK, and it's fun to develop something that yourself would use everyday.

Yup, I could add the owner to the status bar.  But as far as the "Not Responding" status, I am not sure how TaskManager does it.  I think it's somehow related to whether the process's main window is pumping messages or not?  Maybe mouser has some clues

I could easily find out the main window's title for each process though, that might help on differentiating multiple instances of the same process and selecting which one to kill.  I could also add the memory usage for each process if people find it useful, but it will make the querying slower.

[taichimaster]

How does Task Manager determine if an Application is Not Responding?

Hmm...interesting!!

[Lashiec]

OK, I think I know who should receive the Visual Studio package. Well done

And thanks to this plugin, I finally have a quick way to kill processes like I used to do with EDXOR. Cool!

[taichimaster]

Took mouser's suggestion on first attempting to do a graceful terminate on the specified process by issuing a WM_CLOSE to all of its top-level windows.  A process will only be forcefully terminated if the configurable timeout (default is 3 secs) expired.  If you desire, you could set the timeout to 0 to always instant kill the selected process.

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v0.0.0.5 (July 10th, 2007)
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+ Added optional progress bar when attempting a "clean" terminate
* If a "clean" termination was successful, no confirmation warning will be
    shown.

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v0.0.0.4 (July 7th, 2007)
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* The plugin will now first attempt to do a graceful terminate on the
    specified process by issuing a WM_CLOSE.  A process will only be
    forcefully terminated if the timeout expired.
    (See: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/178893
            http://support.microsoft.com/kb/92528
            http://www.ddj.com/d...pt/windows/184416547)

+ Added option to specify timeout before forceful temination
    (a 0 timeout means forceful termination right off the bat)

[jgpaiva]

taichimaster: I can only say "unbelievable!!!"
This is a damn useful plugin

[taichimaster]

Just a minor update to include the creation and running time of the selected process in the status bar.  Sometimes I have problems finding the correct one to kill when I have multiple instances of the same process running.







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v0.0.0.7 (Feb 17th, 2008)
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[CHANGE] Modified status bar to display the creation and running time of the
    selected process.
   
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v0.0.0.6 (Feb 16th, 2008)
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[CHANGE] Improved termination logic.  In some rare cases, process was not able to
    be terminated.
[NEW] Added option to auto-close confirmation dialog within 10 seconds if not
    acknowledged.
[FIX] Fixed bug where sometimes the confirmation dialog did not get shown on top
    of other windows.

[drking]

I hope this is the correct spot to post this question.    First, I want to thank Taichimaster for this fantastic plugin!   

...And I have a quick question that I can't get figured out.   

When I type in 'pkill', I get my list of processes.  However, when i go to click on any of the processe to "kill" it, I get the following error message: "access violation at address 77124DOA in module 'OLEAUT32.dll'.   Read of address 00000EF0." 

Now, I am able to type in the demand manually to get the desired result, for example, "pkill aim6.exe' but not sure why I'm getting the error?

Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
Regina (drking)

[skwire]

I've been meaning to post this for a long while now.  Every time I use the ProcessKill plugin, I get the following error (which crashes FARR):

ProcessKill 0.0.0.5 - My FARR2 Plugin Contest Submission #4

This is a very handy plugin.  Any chance we could see an update?

[verszipo]

I've been meaning to post this for a long while now.  Every time I use the ProcessKill plugin, I get the following error (which crashes FARR):
 (see attachment in previous post)
This is a very handy plugin.  Any chance we could see an update?

-skwire (February 09, 2011, 10:53 AM)

Sadly i have the same error, any way to get this plugin fixed ?