Force to close all of open windows - WinAPI

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Dear all,

I want to close without confirm (Do you want to save the changes.... or something like that) all of open windows (appear in taskbar).
I used SendMessage(handle, WM_CLOSE, 0, 0) to do this, but if there is any application need to save, it will appear a popup to confirm (Do you want to save....?). I don't want it, I want to force to close without confirm.
I used SendMessage(handle, WM_DESTROY, 0, 0) to do this, but there are some windows are not closed.

Do you have any solution for me?

Thank you very much!

Posted 11-Nov-11 0:28am

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Manfred Rudolf Bihy · Answer 1 · 2011-11-11T00:51:00

Please use this MSDN support article to achieve what you want: How To Terminate an Application "Cleanly" in Win32[^].

In a nutshell this article uses the same approach you used with a twist though. It will wait for a certain amount of time for a process to terminate and when a process does not shutdown cleanly the TerminateProcess[^] WinAPI call is invoked to kill the process.

Cheers!

—MRB