[windows] How to suspend/resume a process in Windows?

In Unix we can suspend a process execution temporarily and resume it with signals SIGSTOP and SIGCONT. How can I suspend a single-threaded process in Windows without programming ?

I use (a very old) process explorer from SysInternals (procexp.exe). It is a replacement / addition to the standard Task manager, you can suspend a process from there.

Edit: Microsoft has bought over SysInternals, url: procExp.exe

Other than that you can set the process priority to low so that it does not get in the way of other processes, but this will not suspend the process.

Well, Process Explorer has a suspend option. You can right click a process in the process column and select suspend. Once you are ready to resume it again right click and this time select resume. Process Explorer can be obtained from here:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx

Without any external tool you can simply accomplish this on Windows 7 or 8, by opening up the Resource monitor and on the CPU or Overview tab right clicking on the process and selecting Suspend Process. The Resource monitor can be started from the Performance tab of the Task manager.

PsSuspend command line utility from SysInternals suite. It suspends / resumes a process by its id.

#pragma comment(lib,"ntdll.lib")
EXTERN_C NTSTATUS NTAPI NtSuspendProcess(IN HANDLE ProcessHandle);

void SuspendSelf(){
    NtSuspendProcess(GetCurrentProcess());
}

ntdll contains the exported function NtSuspendProcess, pass the handle to a process to do the trick.

PsSuspend, as mentioned by Vadzim, even suspends/resumes a process by its name, not only by pid.

I use both PsSuspend and PsList (another tool from the PsTools suite) in a simple toggle script for the OneDrive process: if I need more bandwidth, I suspend the OneDrive sync, afterwards I resume the process by issuing the same mini script:

PsList -d onedrive|find/i "suspend" && PsSuspend -r onedrive || PsSuspend onedrive

PsSuspend command line utility from SysInternals suite. It suspends / resumes a process by its id.