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[VB6]Terminating a Process by name

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I want to terminate a process by name. Specifically, Steam which tends not be nice when loading up. Any suggestions? The Steam installer launches Steam, which I want to close instantly because there has to be some things to be done before it loads. Any suggestions or ideas?
 
It's really easy to code that in VBscript.

This code snippet is from the Script Center section on Microsoft Technet. It's from one of the daily "Hey, Scripting Guy!" howto's in thier archive . Just change "notepad.exe" to whatever executable you want to kill (as long as your user has sufficient rights to kill it).

Save below text into a file with a ".vbs" extension.

strComputer = "."
Set objWMIService = GetObject _
("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")
Set colProcessList = objWMIService.ExecQuery _
("Select * from Win32_Process Where Name = 'Notepad.exe'")
For Each objProcess in colProcessList
objProcess.Terminate()
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