Creating and Terminating Processes

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Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Scripting Guide

To develop a complete process management system using WMI, you must be able to create and terminate processes. Among other things, this allows you to create scripts that:

  • Monitor for process availability and, if necessary, restart a process that has abnormally terminated.

  • Monitor for process performance and terminate a process that has exceeded specified thresholds.

  • Start a program on a remote computer and, when finished, terminate the program.

The Win32_Process class contains two methods, Create and Terminate, that can be used to create and terminate processes.