How to pause / resume any external process under Windows?

Question

I am looking for different ways to pause and resume programmatically a particular process via its process ID under Windows XP.

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Answer 1

I think there is a good reason why there is no SuspendProcess() function in Windows. Having such a function opens the door for an unstable system. You shall not suspend a process unless you created that process yourself. If you wrote that process yourself, you could use an event (see ::SetEvent() etc. in MSDN) or another kind of messaging to trigger a pause command in the process.