In C#, how to kill a process tree reliably [duplicate]

Answer 1

Use ManagmentObjectSearcher and a little recursion:

private static void KillProcessAndChildren(int pid)
{
    ManagementObjectSearcher searcher = new ManagementObjectSearcher
      ("Select * From Win32_Process Where ParentProcessID=" + pid);
    ManagementObjectCollection moc = searcher.Get();
    foreach (ManagementObject mo in moc)
    {
        KillProcessAndChildren(Convert.ToInt32(mo["ProcessID"]));
    }
    try
    {
        Process proc = Process.GetProcessById(pid);
        proc.Kill();
    }
    catch (ArgumentException)
    {
        // Process already exited.
    }
 }