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rajan
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how to open and close uncommon application

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how to open and close any application (not common winword like software) from php. how to set it's timer to close the application. i want to set the timer for vnc software.
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you can probably do it with a shell execution (shell_exec() for instance)
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can this will kill processes

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can this will kill the processes on client computers also where the php is running on server
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it very likely will not have the rights to even run an application on the remote machine, let alone kill a process itself.
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