Summary

This article shows how to find and kill the running process before Uninstall

Steps

Create New Project
Go to Sequence and click Pre-Uninstall
Add Execute script/Batch file custom action query process script/command to find the process,
To Make sure the process details add the show message dialog with this $EXECUTE_STDOUT$
Add the Execute Script/Batch file custom action to kill the process with name/PID
Build and run the project.
Here is the successful outputs of Find and kill process,

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