Wait till process is no longer running OR until timeout has passed, whichever happens first

Question

I want to kill a process running on the machine using taskkill if they\'re still running after X seconds (a windows service was stopped but it takes time for processes to diss

Answer 1

You could call Process.WaitForExit, passing the appropriate timeout. This way you won't need to use your own check to see whether the process is still running.