I'm looking for a way to retrieve the process ID from an object that was created by running:
Set ie = WScript.CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application", "ie_")
My problem is that sometimes I see that the iexplorer process remains open and isn't closed after running:
ie.stop
ie.Quit
I found some workarounds, like looking for the newest iexplorer process or looking at the process name, but this isn't good for me since I have several Internet Explorer instances opened in parallel by different processes and it might be on the same time.
This is not good:
Set colProcessList = objWMIService.ExecQuery _
("Select * from Win32_Process Where " _
& "Name = '"& sProcessName & "'")
I saw this solution that might work, but I don't know how to implement it for Internet Explorer.
Without calling a powershell command or using com wrapper you may want filter processes by its command line. An iexplorer.exe process which created from dcom launch has a commandline like -Embedding. A sample query about what I meant.
Select * from Win32_Process Where Name = 'iexplore.exe' And CommandLine Like '%-Embedding'
Yes I heard you, this will returns all embedded instances so it may not be useful if there are multiple instances.
An IE object instance has a property that returns mainwindowhandle : HWND.
What can be done to terminate more reliable using HWND :
Running a command from Powershell:
Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
strCommand = "powershell -Command ""Get-Process | Where-Object {$_.MainWindowHandle -eq "& IE.Hwnd &"} | kill"""
WshShell.Run strCommand, vbHide, True
Using / writing a component that wraps Windows APIs something like that (32 bit only): http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/16558/DestroyWindow-in-VBScript
Set obj = CreateObject("APIWrapperCOM.APIWrapper")
obj.KillWindow IE.Hwnd
Hope it helps.
I think that you're looking for this one
I've tested it in a Powershell Object so It should be the same thing.
$ie.Quit()
