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Hello everyone,

Now I build a MSN plug-in program, but I need to exit MSN and enter again when install my program, could anyone tell me how to exit MSN in program?

thanks a lot!

u need to exit out not just close it

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Originally posted by musicalmidget
You can do this by right clicking the Messenger icon in the system tray and selecting "Exit".

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I think he means he wants his installer to close MSN while the program installs then re-launch it after (like Plus! does) 

Damn, I've got my wires crossed this time.  I'm going to bed...

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I would suggest you have the installation program search for the MSN window, and send it a windows message to shut down. Not that hard to do at all. The fun part is that the WM_CLOSE message doesn't close MSN, but just hides it.

*sigh* life was never meant to be easy!

OR, as a last resort, tell the user to close MSN before the installation continues. not too nice though...

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Originally posted by TheSarlacc
I would suggest you have the installation program search for the MSN window, and send it a windows message to shut down. Not that hard to do at all. The fun part is that the WM_CLOSE message doesn't close MSN, but just hides it.

*sigh* life was never meant to be easy!

OR, as a last resort, tell the user to close MSN before the installation continues. not too nice though...

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or he could use the TerminateProcess api call

look up on google for how to use it, im not sure but i think you may need to Open the Process first (OpenProcess api)

move the return value into a variable (a long in Visual basic which is probly what your coding in)
then Terminate with the variable you just filled and a "0"

Actually, if you want to reload the plugins,  you can tell Plus! to do so with 2 api calls

Look in the readme.txt that comes with the plugin api documentation (typo? )
There is an example for C++.

Thanks very much! Now I exit and reopen MSN successfully using psapi.dll.