NtSuspend

Suspend and resume processes on Windows using NtSuspendProcess() and NtResumeProcess().

This project includes TypeScript declarations.

Feel free to ask anything by opening an issue on GitHub.

Note: Make sure to use this package as an optional dependency if you want to support multiple operating systems.

Only NodeJS 10.x or higher is officially supported

Install

Install the library from NPM:

npm i ntsuspend

or from GitHub:

npm i FedericoCarboni/node-ntsuspend

To use it in your project you can import or require() it.

import { suspend, resume } from 'ntsuspend';

const { suspend, resume } = require('ntsuspend');

Usage

The package exports suspend() and resume(), they take the process' PID and return true on success, false otherwise.

if (!suspend(pid))
  console.log('Could not suspend process');
if (!resume(pid))
  console.log('Could not resume process');

Note: If you're not on Windows suspend() and resume() will be undefined.