🔒 How (in the WORLD!!!) do you close handles via python?

[balmy dove]

using process explorer (microsoft made app) you can look at applications and (if u run procexp as admin) you can see handles and dlls for whatever apps you want. ive been trying really hard (10 HOURS) to make python close a certain handle for me (ROBLOX_singletonEvent) but every single time i run a script that tries it it DOSENT WORK

so a couple of questions

1. when i run command prompt as admin (and run my script in there), does the .py script itself also have to be run as admin (or given admin perms if thats a thing)?
2. if not, why cant i close it then?

any tips and tricks... please... my entire day was burnt on solving this one issue...

[dense nacelle]

@balmy dove

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[balmy dove]

import time
import win32file
import win32con

def close_singleton_event_handle():
    try:
        handle_roblox = r'\\Sessions\\1\\BaseNamedObjects\\ROBLOX_singletonEvent

# below is to give time for roblos to acctualy load the handle (might not be nessecary)(idk how long it tkaes to load)

        print("Waiting for singleton handle to be created...")
        time.sleep(5)

       
        handle = win32file.CreateFile(
            handle_roblox,
            win32con.GENERIC_READ | win32con.GENERIC_WRITE,
            0,  # No sharing
            None,  # No security attributes
            win32con.OPEN_EXISTING,
            0,  # No flags
            None
        )

        print(f"Handle {handle_roblox} opened successfully!")

        win32file.CloseHandle(handle)
        print(f"Closed handle {handle_roblox} successfully!")
        return True

    except Exception as e:
        print(f"Error while trying to close handle: {e}")
        return False

it_works = close_singleton_event_handle()

if it_works:
    print("Singleton handle closed. Proceeding with next steps...")
    # Example subprocess to run the next script
    import subprocess
    subprocess.run(["python", "fcBrowser2.py"])
else:
    print("Oops!")

this is my script if anyone needs to see it

ill send my other one that i tried (and that didnt work) here too

nvmi wont

i cant find the right one

[balmy dove]

bump

[white temple]

are you trying to close a handle of another process?

[white temple]

normally whatever you start in a window running as admin should inherent those permissions and hence should also be running as admin

[graceful sentinel]

that might be against ToS, but im not sure. That handle prevents other instances of application (roblox) from being launched

[white temple]

hmmm, yeah, your right, it might be, it's probably there for a good reason

[balmy dove]

the handle im trying to close is under RobloxPlayerBeta.exe.

if thats what u meant... by that question

[wintry stratus]

content = file.read()

[dense nacelle]

Hey @wintry stratus!

Please edit your message to use a code block

```py
print('Hello, world!')
```

This will result in the following:

print('Hello, world!')```

[white temple]

manipulating the runtime of the roblox process is probably against ToS and hence against

!rule 5

[dense nacelle]

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[balmy dove]

i see. could i ask this question on the reddit or some other forum?

[dense nacelle]

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