How close an external windows programmatically ?

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How can I close an external windows programmatically in C# that I don't know when it will be opened?

Posted 5-Jul-15 19:39pm

Rasoul Takalloo

Updated 5-Jul-15 19:40pm

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[no name] 6-Jul-15 1:45am

Do I understand that you want to clobber any window that tries to open?

Rasoul Takalloo 6-Jul-15 1:54am

yes, when i'm going to setup embeded exe file silently in my project it open another windows, i want to close that...

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Abhinav S · Accepted Answer · 2015-07-05T19:56:00

Solution 1

You can use a windows service that would be running in the background.
keep searching for the window every few minutes and then close it as described in Find and Close the Window using Win API[^].

The service will need to be running with administrator privileges.

Posted 5-Jul-15 19:56pm

Abhinav S

Updated 5-Jul-15 19:57pm

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Rasoul Takalloo 6-Jul-15 2:05am

Thanks Abhinav, It work for me .Good job