I want to be able to close a process on a remote computer using a .bat file.
eg: taskkill /im Myapp.exe
Is using taskkill a suitable way to close an application? eg like clicking the 'X' on the toolbar?
Does it give the app time to run all of it's closing down methods/destructors? Or does it cause it to end abruptly, losing any data that hasn't had a chance to be written before closing?
Yes, if you dont use /f.
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My Mail App for Windows 10 starts lagging like CRAZY with 4 second reaction times for each click. (yeah) When that happens I simply have to restart it to fix the issue. (No one has been able to understand why This happens when mail-app is idle)
I just thought I make a simple batch file who kills the app and restarts it each time I wanna open it so it always opens fresh. (Killing it takes just a second extra)
I managed to find that the name of the mail app process was HxOutlook.exe so I wrote this successful code
taskkill /IM HxOutlook.exe /F
But when trying to boot the process I cannot find out how. I tried the file directly but I get acces denied. Tried running is as my user which is admin, still same error. When trying to run as 'admin' it always says wrong password. However I don't want to have to enter password..
I found the HwOutlook folder and tried Using this code to call .exe:
runas /user:Administrator "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\microsoft.windowscommunicationsapps_16005.11029.20108.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe\HxOutlook.exe"
I also created a shortcut from the start menu and it says it executes microsoft.windowscommunicationsapps_8wekyb3. But trying to do that gets only error is not recognized as command or program
What can I add to the batch script to make it open the app again as if I click a shortcut like I can do in start, desktop and taskbar...
Just calling the shortcut from the desktop like Mail.lnk solved it for now.
taskkill /IM HxOutlook.exe /F
Mail.lnk
i want to kill a java process through a batch file, but safely.
The problem is, when i use
taskkill /IM java.exe
it wont kill the process because java doesn't allow it.
When i use
taskkill /F /IM java.exe
it works, but there is the risk that files could corrupt, so i don't want to use it.
The subject is to stop a minecraft server which is running on windows. One option on linux is to use screen so i can send a stop-command to this virtual command line but as i know this programm doesn't work on windows. Is there mayby an alternative?
I am trying to code a batch file that can play a song.
Luckily I found a solution to that at Stack Overflow. I used SachaDee's method, which created a VBS file that would play my mp3 file nicely.
My only issue is that once the VBS file is opened, I can't seem to find a way to stop the music. I even tried deleting the file in mid-song, but the song will still continue.
EDIT:
I found out that the way to solve this is by running the following command.
taskkill /IM wscript.exe /F
Just to end up the question.
taskkill /IM wscript.exe /F
This will stop wscript.exe with full force. However, a vbs can also be executed through cscript.exe.
According to this question, it seems to be ideal to use cscript for command-line, to execute VBS. Altough both works.
With your keyboard, press Ctrl+alt+del , then click Task Manager.
In task manager, click on the section where it shows you the programs that are running.
Find the VBS icon: A little cube with branches.
Click on the icon, then on the End Task Button.
Trying to create a batch file that will open a specific browser (firefox) minimized and direct it to a link. After A specific period 5 seconds the browser will close. I can direct to the link open a specific browser but the browser does not start minimized nor does it close after 5.
#echo off
SET BROWSER=firefox.exe
SET WAIT_TIME=2
start /min %BROWSER% http://www.stackoverflow.com
SET WAIT_TIME=2
taskkill /IM firefox.exe
Your batch file cannot close the process because, while it sets a variable called WAIT_TIME, the batch file does not actually wait; the taskkill command runs immediately, before the process has even started. You need to add a command such as timeout to actually make the batch file wait.
SET WAIT_TIME=2
timeout %WAIT_TIME%
taskkill /im firefox.exe
For the minimized window, there is no good solution. A Windows (non-console) program receives the /min param through its nCmdShow parameter to WinMain(), but it's up to the program what to do with that. Most simply ignore it. There are 3rd-party solutions which will send a minimize command to the window after it has opened, but there's no easy way to do this in Windows Batch without involving another scripting language like VBS or PowerShell.
Hi I want to close a Firefox window but without killing it...
I know that the taskkill command terminates processes but is there any other way to close the application window?
Thanks.
You can't kill a process without killing the process. However, unless you use the /f switch taskkill asks the process nicely to terminate itself (same as if you'd press Alt-F4).