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C# Kill all processes not essential to running Windows

I have an application. If the application is not used in 15 mins it needs to closes all other applications (forced closed) and the timer starts again. I do not want to crash windows 7 doing this. So far I have the following:

Process me = Process.GetCurrentProcess();
foreach (Process p in Process.GetProcesses())
{
if (p.Id != me.Id
&& p.ProcessName != 'winlogon.exe'
&& p.ProcessName != 'explorer.exe'
&& p.ProcessName != 'System Idle Process'
&& p.ProcessName != 'taskmgr.exe'
&& p.ProcessName != 'spoolsv.exe'
&& p.ProcessName != 'csrss.exe'
&& p.ProcessName != 'smss.exe'
&& p.ProcessName != 'svchost.exe '
&& p.ProcessName != 'services.exe'
)
{
p.Kill();
}
}


Sadly windows dies (blue screen). Is there any way I could close all the processes for the active use then hopefully Windows may survive.

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