[Caml Light]

Hi guys, i need to loop the taskkill command until the process is killed (this process is hard to kill ). Starting from:

TASKKILL /F /IM process.exe /T

What is the easiest and effective way to do it? Thank you in advance!

[tomasz86]

You didn't say which Windows is that.

This should work in 2000/XP/2003:

:TASKKILL
TASKKILL /F /IM process.exe /T
FOR /F %%I IN ('tasklist ^| FINDSTR/I "process.exe"') DO IF DEFINED %%I GOTO :TASKKILL

[allen2]

Killing the process one time should be enough even if it takes a long time so no need to loop on the taskkill step.
You need to first launch taskkill in another process using something like "start /high /separate".
Then you need to loop on tasklist until the process doesn't exist anymore:

:loop
rem ping -n 5 localhost
tasklist /fi  "IMAGENAME eq process.exe" |findstr /i process.exe
if %errorlevel% eq 0 goto loop else goto :next
:next

This code will work but it will also loop too fast and increase the load of the computer so i added a sleep (ping -n ) you should uncomment.

[gunsmokingman]

Here is a vbs script that loops 12 times at 5 second intervals and if Notepad is open will closed it.
I have scripted this to run using Cscript.exe
Save As TaskKilllProcess.vbs

Dim C1, Obj,Task,Wmi
Set Wmi = GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\.\root\cimv2")
'-> Make Sure It Runs Cscript
 If InStr(1,WScript.FullName,"cscript",1) Then
   TaskKill()
 Else
'-> Error Wrong Script Engine
  MsgBox _
  "This script was ment to run by this Scripting Engine Cscript.exe" & vbCrLf & _
  "Right Click this script and select either the Cscript or Cmd Promt", _
  4128,"Error Wrong Scripting Engine"
 End If
'-> Wait For Task Kill Process
  Function TaskKill()
   C1 = C1 + 1
   If Len(C1) = 1 Then C1 = "0" & C1 
    Do Until C1 = 12
'-> Name Of Process To Kill EG Notepad.exe    
     For Each Obj in Wmi.ExecQuery( _
     "Select * from Win32_Process Where Name = 'Notepad.exe'") 
      Obj.Terminate()
      WScript.Echo " Stopping : " & Obj.Name & vbCrLf 
      WScript.Sleep 500
     Next
      WScript.Echo " " & C1 & vbTab  & "Waiting For Notepad" & vbCrLf
      WScript.Sleep 5000 
     TaskKill() 
    Loop
   End Function 
'-> End Of Script Message
  WScript.Echo " " & C1 & vbTab  & "Exiting Script"
  WScript.Sleep 1000 

Rename TaskKilllProcess.vbs.txt to TaskKilllProcess.vbs to make active
 TaskKilllProcess.vbs.txt (1.07K)
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[Caml Light]

Thank you guys!

An other question... how can i convert a CMD batch file with more strings into a batch with a single string?

Could i have an example with this batch:

:loop
rem ping -n 5 localhost
tasklist /fi  "IMAGENAME eq process.exe" |findstr /i process.exe
if %errorlevel% eq 0 goto loop else goto :next
:next

Thank you!

[jaclaz]

allen2, on 31 August 2012 - 11:49 PM, said:

You need to first launch taskkill in another process using something like "start /high /separate".

Which still applies only to 16-bit programs....
http://ss64.com/nt/start.html
http://www.windowsne...emoryspace.html
http://www.microsoft...t.mspx?mfr=true

Quote

/separate : Starts 16-bit programs in a separate memory space.

jaclaz