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From: bcw@rti.UUCP (Bruce Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Sorcerer's Apprentice!?
Summary: Stopping timers
Keywords: SetTimer
Message-ID: <3587@rti.UUCP>
Date: 16 Feb 90 19:35:56 GMT
References: <4430@brahma.cs.hw.ac.uk>
Organization: Research Triangle Institute, RTP, NC
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In article <4430@brahma.cs.hw.ac.uk>, steve@cs.hw.ac.uk (Steven Salvini) writes:
> 
> I'm using the Microsoft Windows Developers' Kit and I'd like to kill
> a timer set up using SetTimer - how do I do it?   There doesn't seem
> to be a "DestroyTimer" function or anything.   I've tried FreeProcInstance
> (amongst others) but only with disasterous results...

Try KillTimer.  I think it probably does what you want.  As you note,
FreeProcInstance is only going to crash Windows.

						Bruce C. Wright