How to stop a process that i have started in my prog to stop

Question

public class stopproc {
     public static void main(String args[]){
Runtime rt = Runtime.getRuntime();
try{
Process process = rt.exec("start notepad");
//Thread.sleep(1000);
//process.destroy();
}catch(Exception ex){}
The above is the code where i am starting a notepad and want to destroy it..but it is not working..can u tell me why

Answer 1

//process.destroy();
That won't do anything because it is a comment, not a line of code.