How to close running program?

Is there a way to close a program in Windows if I know the loaded exe name? How is this done?
There is a program called kill.exe from the NT resource kit. It's used as "kill.exe processname". I'd like to use something similar but through a Java object.
Thanks,
Brett

You can close only those programs which you run through your java program. e.g. you can run a batch file through your java program as follows:
Runtime runtime = Runtime.getRuntime();
Process process = runtime.exec("c:\\my.bat");
Now you have a reference of your created program. At any time you can close it as follows:
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