OpenWith External App Get ID To CLose

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I want my VB6 app to start an external .exe, get some thing back so that
later like a handle or ID I can close and/or kill the .exe. i.e. attempt to
close but if it does not close then kill it. Kill because I may wish to
abando the open process before it completes what it is doing.
The problem is a little more complicated since I need to use openwith.
For example, my app would use openwith to open a text like file. The text
file might be a .rtf or .txt so either WordPad or Notepad would open it or
some other app that got associated with it by the user.
The the app could be unknown.
Later I want to close that app, whatever it is.
I do not know the terminology to ask the question properly , so ...
How do I do that?

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