I've tried restarting a program every few minutes with a batch file which looks like the following. However it only opens the .exe a lot of times which causes them to crash. Anyone knows why this problem occurs?
#echo off
:loop
start "programm" "D:\Downloads\programm.exe"
timeout /t 1200 >null
taskkill /f /im "programm" >null
timeout /t 7 >null
goto loop
I hate a short answer, but it's an easy and quick fix. null is nothing, use nul as it's almost certainly skipping the invalid output name.
So the code:
#echo off
:loop
start "programm" "D:\Downloads\programm.exe"
timeout /t 1200 >nul
taskkill /f /im "programm" >nul
timeout /t 7 >nul
goto :loop
taskkill /f /im "programm" >null
Remove the >null and look why it doesn't kill the program.
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I am trying to have a FiveM server auto-restart. Currently, this is how you startup the server
echo on
title FiveM
cd %~dp0
:loop
%~dp0run.cmd +exec server.cfg %*
timeout /t 6 >null
taskkill /f /im FiveM >nul
timeout /t 30 >null
goto loop```
pause
I want my server to auto restart after, lets say, 1 hour. To stop the script normally you need to cntrl+c.
How do I go about this?
I'm trying to make an batch file that opens a website for 5 seconds, then closes it an then loop the batch, I got not much Succes, does anyone now how to do this, without letting all te cmd pages on screen(so the batch also closes the cmd after running) I hope someone can help me.
this is the code i got so far, it works but it doesnt close the cmd.exe (Web is the name of the .bat file)
#echo off
start "chrome.exe" "http://www.websitehere. co"
timeout /t 3
taskkill /IM chrome.exe /F
:loop
start /wait Web
goto loop
Greetz Bas
I've tried this code, hope it's good for you:
What i've done is do a while loop, for you to choose how many times will the loop run.
I set the timeout as 10 seconds but you can change it for 5 seconds.
#echo off
set /A x=0
:while
if %x% LEQ 2 (
echo %x%
start /max chrome.exe https://www.google.es
timeout 10
taskkill /F /IM chrome.exe > null
set /A x=%x%+1
goto :while
)
I am running a command in command prompt and I want to kill it after 15 minutes. I don't care if it is completed or not. I don't want to have any human interaction to kill the running command such as someone has to press CTRL+C to kill it.
Is there a way to do it.
Please note I don;t want to use any third party tools or scripts.
start forfiles /s
timeout /t 5
Taskkill /im forfiles.exe /f
is one way.
Did you mean something like that ?
#echo off
Tracert www.google.com
timeout /t 900 /nobreak >NUL
Taskkill /im cmd.exe /f
Edit : based on the blueray's comment :
how can I put this command in a single line to use in CMD?
Tracert www.google.com & timeout /t 900 /nobreak >NUL & Taskkill /im cmd.exe /f
May be this could help
start your-command-here
ping 127.0.0.1 -n 120 > NUL
taskkill /im cmd.exe /f
Explanation:
start: this command starts executing your command
ping: it pings your local machine(ip : 127.0.0.1) for 120 sec and >NUL redirects the output to nowhere else the output of ping command will be displayed on the cmd screen
taskkill: it is used to kill any task
/im: image name of the process to be terminated. if the command is running on cmd then cmd.exe or any program that you need to kill.
Hope it helps.
Try this, works well for me:
SETLOCAL ENABLEEXTENSIONS
SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION
#echo off
set _time=0
set _timeout=30
start myprocess.exe
:waitforprocess
set /A _time=_time+1
IF !_time! GTR !_timeout! goto TimedOut
rem TaskList will return the task list of the image as specific
rem or it will return INFO: No tasks are running.... so look for
rem the INFO statement using FindStr. FindStr will return a errorlevel
rem of 0 if it found the string and a 1 if it did not, so use that
rem to work out next steps.
rem -------------------------------------------------------------------
tasklist /NH /FI "IMAGENAME EQ myprocess.exe" | findstr INFO
rem ERRORLEVEL 1 = Did not find the string, so try again.
IF ERRORLEVEL 1 (
timeout /T 1 /NOBREAK > nul
goto :waitforprocess
)
GOTO DONE
:TimedOut
ECHO We timedout so will kill the process
taskkill /FI "IMAGENAME EQ myprocess.exe" /T /F
:Done
echo finished
I have a batch that used to kill VLC.
echo
rem choice /c YN /n /d Y /t 120
taskkill /im vlc.exe
Now when it runs, VLC stays open, even though the CMD reports the taskkill command was successfully sent.
Any ideas? Perhaps a VLC (currently 2.1.5) update make it no longer work.
Is taskkill /im vlc.exe /f or taskkill /im vlc.exe /t /f working for you? Had the same problem with explorer.exe a while ago...
I'm having problems with the firefox Flashplayerplugin eating up too much ram and lagging my system when it's not in use. The only solution I found was killing the flashplayerplugin while using firefox, uninstalling, reinstalling or a fresh firefox install or new profile doesn't solve it; however, it's becoming very tedious having to check taskmanager all the time and kill it and the flashplayerplugin always seems to start on it's own.
The question I have is if it's possible to create a batch file to check if FlashPlugin_11_8_800_94.exe is running and kill it after a period of time (5-10 seconds) and continue running the batch file actively, in a loop, scanning if FlashPlugin_11_8_800_94.exe has started again, then kill it after 5 - 10 seconds, rinse and repeat?
Edit:
Found a batch file and modified it, but also seems to be missing some perimeters to actively search if it's running, even when it is not. It doesn't work either way though.
#echo off
:search
TASKLIST|FIND "FlashPlayerPlugin"
IF %ERRORLEVEL% = 0 THEN (GOTO found)
TIMEOUT /T 5
GOTO search
:found
taskkill /im FlashPlayerPlugin_11_8_800_94.exe
--
This batch file doesn't work either.
set tasklist=%windir%\System32\tasklist.exe
set taskkill=%windir%\System32\taskkill.exe
-------------------------------------------------------
:STOPPROC
set wasStopped=0
set procFound=0
set notFound_result=ERROR:
set procName=%1
for /f "usebackq" %%A in (`%taskkill% /IM %procName%`) do (
if NOT %%A==%notFound_result% (set procFound=1)
)
if %procFound%==0 (
echo The process was not running.
goto :EOF
)
set wasStopped=1
set ignore_result=INFO:
:CHECKDEAD
"%windir%\system32\timeout.exe" 3 /NOBREAK
for /f "usebackq" %%A in (`%tasklist% /nh /fi "imagename eq %procName%"`) do (
if not %%A==%ignore_result% (goto :CHECKDEAD)
)
goto :EOF
-------------------------------------------------------
:MAIN
call :STOPPROC FlashPlayerPlugin_11_8_800_94.exe
taskkill /im FlashPlugin_11_8_800_94* /f >nul 2>&1
For anyone who still might find it useful:
This is a small script that scans tasklist for processes containing processname once every 5 seconds. For example, if you put "notepad" for the processname, it will end processes like "notepad.exe" and "notepad++.exe". To use the script, copy and paste the following into notepad and save has "simple_pk.cmd". processname can have any characters except double quotes("), ampersands (&), or commas (,).
::Simple monitor and kill process
#echo off&prompt :&mode con cols=50 lines=10
set processname=flashplayerplugin
:loop
cls&echo Searching for %processname%...
for /f "tokens=1 delims=," %%a in ('tasklist /fo csv ^|FINDSTR /I /C:"%processname%"') do call :killprocess %%a
ping -n 6 127.0.0.1>NUL
goto :loop
:killprocess
echo. |set /p d=killing %*...
taskkill /f /im "%*">nul 2>&1
set err=%errorlevel%
set success=Success
if not %err%==0 set success=fail (err code: %err%)
if %err%==128 set success=fail (process not found)
echo %success%&goto :eof
This is a slightly different version of the same script. This will only end processes that match the whole name exactly:
::Simple monitor and kill process (exact name)
#echo off&prompt :&mode con cols=50 lines=10
set processname=FlashPlayerPlugin_11_8_800_94.exe
:loop
cls&echo Searching for %processname%...
for /f "tokens=1 delims=," %%a in ('tasklist /fo csv ^|FINDSTR /C:"%processname%"') do call :killprocess %%a
ping -n 6 127.0.0.1>NUL
goto :loop
:killprocess
set name=%*
set name=.,;%name:"=%;,.
echo %name%|FINDSTR /C:".,;%processname%;,.">nul || goto :eof
echo. |set /p d=killing %*...
taskkill /f /im "%*">nul 2>&1
set err=%errorlevel%
set success=Success
if not %err%==0 set success=fail (err code: %err%)
if %err%==128 set success=fail (process not found)
echo %success%&goto :eof
Your IF is not correct:
#echo off
:search
TASKLIST|FIND "setup.exe"
IF %ERRORLEVEL% equ 0 (GOTO found)
TIMEOUT /T 5
GOTO search
:found
taskkill /im setup.exe
More simpler form
#echo off
:search
TASKLIST|FIND "setup.exe"
IF %ERRORLEVEL% equ 0 (taskkill /im setup.exe
exit)
TIMEOUT /T 5
GOTO search
I was looking over the first bit of code at top and I find a way, I believe. This is what I got; really simple.
#echo off
cls
:start
timeout /t 5
tasklist|find "explorer.exe"
goto found
goto start
:found
taskkill /f /im explorer.exe
goto start
Of course, any program will work.