Package Boot Editor and Variables

Does the Package Boot Editor in Patch Manager v2 support the use of variables? I'd like to terminate a process but it contains a version number.

I'm trying to kill any processes related to Adobe Flash.

Is FlashUtil%ActiveX.exe or FlashUtil*ActiveX.exe acceptable?

Thanks, Peter

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As far as I know, it does not. It requires an explicit process name.

Which can be particularly problematic for the Adobe Flash scenario, since they've created this unique process naming scheme.

I just found this on the PatchManagement.org mailing list... you can achieve this via WMI.

Create this as a script object, and then use the "Run a program" option to execute the script to terminate the Flash process.

strProcessKill = "'FlashUtil%ActiveX.exe'"

Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\.\root\cimv2")

Set colProcess = objWMIService.ExecQuery ("Select * from Win32_Process Where Name LIKE " & strProcessKill )

For Each objProcess In colProcess

objProcess.Terminate()