How to Kill a process if its running

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Kill a process if its running
Introduction:
This is a snippet I use to search for and kill a process if it is found in the list of running processes.

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//Namespaces needed
using System.Diagnostics;

public bool FindAndKillProcess(string name)
{
//here we're going to get a list of all running processes
foreach (Process clsProcess in Process.GetProcesses())
{
//now we're going to see if any of the running processes
//match the currently running processes by using the StartsWith Method,
//this prevents us from including the .EXE for the process we're
//looking for.
//Be sure to not add the .exe to the name you provide, i.e: NOTEPAD,
//not NOTEPAD.EXE or false is always returned even if
//notepad is running
if (clsProcess.ProcessName.StartsWith(name))
{
//since we found the proccess we now need to use the
//Kill Method to kill the process. Remember, if you have
//the process running more than once, say IE open 4
//times the loop thr way it is now will close all 4,
//if you want it to just close the first one it finds
//then add a return; after the Kill
clsProcess.Kill();
//process killed, return true
return true;
}
}
//process not found, return false
return false;
}