Suspending a Thread

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You can suspend a thread at any time by using the SuspendThread function.

You can also perform the following related tasks on a thread.

To	Call
Resume running a thread	ResumeThread
Suspend a thread for a specified number of milliseconds	Sleep
Profile the performance of a thread and return how much time the thread has run	GetThreadTimes

When suspending a thread more than once, you must match multiple calls to SuspendThread with the same number of calls to ResumeThread.

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