kill prog!

[Diroga]

i got some screwy programs that dont end if you end process them. so i was thinking is it possible to use poke/peek to look throught the memory and find what block that program is using and write over it so the program chrashes?

[Nexinarus]

you want to avoid the issue rather than fix it?

show us the program code or something if you cant fix it.

[Diroga]

uh well it application not basic that's giving me the trouble

[Zap]

qbs PEEK and POKE can only access the first 640k of the mem, so that wouldn't help you.

I think there's a shut down app. feature in vb, but I'm not sure. Vb can't directly access memory btw.

[na_th_an]

Protected mode, guys. Only the system kernel can access a process memory space.

[Diroga]

and if i take out the kernel good bye OS. peek poek won't work for ems? at all?

[SCM]

Have you tried Ctrl+Alt+Del, then selecting the program to terminate?

[Diroga]

that's what i do. it happens when i'm low on resorces and nothing seams to be working the right way. i thought that i could make a simple program that would over write a section of memory to cause a non responding program to crash. would that just make things worse? i'm on win98 by the by.

[na_th_an]

and if i take out the kernel good bye OS. peek poek won't work for ems? at all?

EMS does not exist in Windows. Windows uses a 32 bits flat model. You just have 4 Gigs of possible memory. You can't make a program that pokes outside its memory area, 'cause you are in protected mode as well. So what you want to do is impossible.

You could try and make a Win32 program that used some API calls to terminate processes, but those API calls are which are used by the task manager, so no use.

Anyhow, if you can't terminate a process using the task manager it means that:

1.- You are using Win9X or WinME.

and / or

2.- Your computer is really screwed.

[Diroga]

what about ASM? same senario?