Find a process by name and kill it

Question

I have a Qt based updater application that needs to replace a running process with the new file. On Windows, the updater is failing when the process is running.

Is there a way that I can find a process by name e.g, Firefox.exe and kill it using Qt?

Answer 1

There's no API to do this in Qt, which means the only way to do it is using platform specific code.

Answer 2

You can call system like this: taskkill /f /im firefox.exe