Re: Closing a program with script...

If you have several applications of the same name then each
has its own PID. Switching to that PID and using Alt+F4
would kill each application individually.

A more effective method might be to use taskkill.exe (another
WinXP Professional tool):

taskkill /PID nnn /f
taskkill /Im Winword /f

The /f switch would take care of user prompts.


"Gary S. Terhune" <none> wrote in message
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Never mind, it works. While SendKeys doesn't work well if the window isn't
actually brought up (AppActivate doesn't actually pull up the window) the
use of Alt-F4 works for any of them. But this other thing would need to be
dealt with: Say you have two instances of an app like Word open.
AppActivate only activates one of them, arbitrarily. The remaining
instance would have the same PID, so the script would need to loop through
the same PID until none was found to exist. The script generates no errors
using AppActivate if the PID doesn't exist. It just skips on by.
AppActivate supposedly returns a Boolean value, but damned if I can
retrieve it. Brain is getting foggy.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
www.grystmill.com

"Paul Randall" <paulr901@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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The command line reference a-z supplied with WXP tells you about
tasklist.exe. On my computer it resides in my system32 folder.

-Paul Randall

"Gary S. Terhune" <none> wrote in message
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After fixing the line return problems in the script, engendered by NG
transfer, I can't make it work. I get a command window flashing by, then
nothing. I'm using Calculator as a test, rather than Firefox, which I
don't have installed. Tried it in a command window, also, with no
return. Tried with Calc open and with it closed.

Using the command line in a command window, I get "'Tasklist'" is not a
recognized internal or external command, operable program or batch
file."

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
www.grystmill.com

"Pegasus (MVP)" <I.can@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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You can obtain the process ID of an active task, e.g. for
Firefox, with this command:
for /f "tokens=2" %a in ('tasklist ^| find /i "Firefox"') do echo %a

Here is the script equivalent:
Option Explicit
Const App = "FIREFOX"
Dim ObjWshShell, ObjExec
Dim ComSpec, SystemRoot, line

Set ObjWshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
ComSpec = ObjWshShell.Environment("PROCESS")("ComSpec")

Set ObjExec = ObjWshShell.Exec(ComSpec & " /c tasklist.exe")

line = ObjExec.StdOut.ReadLine
line = ObjExec.StdOut.ReadLine
While Len(line) > 0
If InStr(UCase(line), App) > 0 Then
line=LTrim(Right(line, Len(line) - InStr(line," ")))
WScript.Echo("Process ID for """ & App & """ is " &
Left(line,InStr(line," ")))
End If
line = ObjExec.StdOut.ReadLine
Wend


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"Gary S. Terhune" <none> wrote in message
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What apps? Oddly enough, while it's easy to run an app using a VB
script, I find no method to easily exit an app. But here's one example
of a kludge that will work for some apps. Using calculator as an
example (calc needs to already be open):

dim WshShell
set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
WshShell.AppActivate "calculator"
WshShell.SendKeys "%{f4}"
WScript.Quit

Problem is, to identify the application and activate it requires the
name of the app as it appears in the title bar, or the Process ID. I'm
not sure how to obtain a Process ID, but that's what you'd want. Using
the title of the app is not useful in many cases, because it varies.
For example, while the title bar for Calculator is always the same,
apps like Word and IE list the open document's name, followed by the
app's name, like this: "My Test Document - Microsoft Word".

I'm curious: Why it's important that the apps be closed in the first
place.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
www.grystmill.com

"116" <116@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I am looking for some assistance in locating who to or perhaps some
sample
script for closing a running program. I am having difficulty with
people
shutting down app's when they go home for the evening. Perhaps
something
that I can Task Schedule to run every evening.

Thanks
David












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