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Hi everyone,

Windows 7 has one annoying thing. When shutting down the pc it always asks me if I want to force to close the following programs, such as Opera browser or Outlook 2007. I didn't have this problem in vista as such, because at the moment if I don't close these programs before shutting down the pc they basically crash when I want to open them after I started the system later...

So what I need now is a button which will close the most vulnerable programs which in my case are Opera and M$ Outlook 2007. I want to close them, wait few seconds and then turn the pc off.

I will need help with this as I don't know where to start and I will be grateful for that.

Thanks in advance.

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Your starting place is the Autoit helpfile

you want to begin with

Shutdown

ProcessClose

Thanks for that, but instead of ProcessClose I need to use WinClose as processclose is killing the process and I don't want that since shutting down the pc is doing this already ;P
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Can't edit my post...

I'm trying with WinClose and I have no luck.

I've tried with few different windows. ie PSPad, Microsoft Word, Firefox etc.. For example I used:

WinClose("[ACTIVE]","")
Presumably according to the help file this script should close active window, but it doesn't. It brings the "closing windows" window with a list of options, log off, sleep, shutdown etc.. and maybe I do something wrong?
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Well this works for me

$hwnd = WinGetHandle("Opera")
WinClose($hwnd)
Sleep(2000)

You just need to do it for each thing you want to close, including any dialogue boxes that might appear during its closing process.

Or you may have to Send() ControlSend() something to confirm a dialogue box.

And of course add the Shutdown() function

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Well this works for me

$hwnd = WinGetHandle("Opera")
WinClose($hwnd)
Sleep(2000)

You just need to do it for each thing you want to close, including any dialogue boxes that might appear during its closing process.

Or you may have to Send() ControlSend() something to confirm a dialogue box.

And of course add the Shutdown() function

Thanks for this, but it doesn't work sometimes and brings the "closing windows" window up. It closes opera, firefox fine, but it doesn't close microsoft outlook. I tried both names, together and separately and no luck :/ Edited by 1101
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I dont use outlook so I cant try myself

does this "closing windows" window require you to press a button to complete the closing of outlook ?

If so you need to use the windowinfo tool of autoit to get info from it in order to automate the selecting of the button ?

if you can paste the info from the tool about the window, I maybe can help you.

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What happens if you use

Opt("WinTitleMatchMode", 2)

at the top of your script?

Or something like (not tested)

$aProc = ProcessList()
For$i = 1 To Ubound($aProc) -1
If StringRegExp($aProc[$i][0],".*Outlook|Opera.*") Then ProcessClose($aProc[$i][1])

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What happens if you use

Opt("WinTitleMatchMode", 2)

at the top of your script?

Or something like (not tested)

$aProc = ProcessList()
For$i = 1 To Ubound($aProc) -1
If StringRegExp($aProc[$i][0],".*Outlook|Opera.*") Then ProcessClose($aProc[$i][1])

Thanks, but first I will read more what these things mean lol

I dont use outlook so I cant try myself

does this "closing windows" window require you to press a button to complete the closing of outlook ?

If so you need to use the windowinfo tool of autoit to get info from it in order to automate the selecting of the button ?

if you can paste the info from the tool about the window, I maybe can help you.

I meant this window:

Posted Image

and no, i can only turn pc off, log off, restart, sleep, hibernate.

edit:this script worked with outlook:

Opt("WinTitleMatchMode", 2)
$hwnd = WinGetHandle("Microsoft Outlook")
WinClose($hwnd)
Sleep(2000)

When it was just "Outlook" it brought Opera up (??)

Do I add Sleep(2000) after every program or can it be added at the end of all scripts?

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$aWindows = WinList()
If IsArray($aWindows) Then
    For $i = 1 To UBound($aWindows) - 1
        If StringRegExp($aWindows[$i][0], "(?i).*Opera|outlook|fireFox.*") Then
            MsgBox(0, "Result " & $i, $aWindows[$i][0], 2)
        EndIf
    Next
EndIf

Where I have the MsgBox() you can close the process instead and then after the loop is finished use ShutDown(), it's in the help file.

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$aWindows = WinList()
If IsArray($aWindows) Then
    For $i = 1 To UBound($aWindows) - 1
        If StringRegExp($aWindows[$i][0], "(?i).*Opera|outlook|fireFox.*") Then
            MsgBox(0, "Result " & $i, $aWindows[$i][0], 2)
        EndIf
    Next
EndIf

Where I have the MsgBox() you can close the process instead and then after the loop is finished use ShutDown(), it's in the help file.

I don't know how to do it or what parameters to use. I've replaced the msgbox() with processclose without any parameters as I have no idea what I'm doing :/ The error windows comes up.

The example that JohnOne has posted does work, but only when all programs that are mentioned inside the script are running and if one of them isn't running I get the "closing windows" window... which closes the SciTEditor and the autoit help file - probably the last active window..

Perhaps I could use something like "use only if running/open" or "something" :( but as I say I can't get this language :)

Opt("WinTitleMatchMode", 2)
$hwnd = WinGetHandle("Microsoft Outlook")
WinClose($hwnd)
Sleep(2000)
$hwnd = WinGetHandle("Opera")
WinClose($hwnd)
Sleep(2000)
$hwnd = WinGetHandle("Firefox")
WinClose($hwnd)
Sleep(2000)
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try this

Opt("WinTitleMatchMode", 2)
If WinExists("Microsoft Outlook") Then
    $hwnd = WinGetHandle("Microsoft Outlook")
    WinClose($hwnd)
    Sleep(2000)
EndIf
If WinExists("Opera") Then
    $hwnd = WinGetHandle("Opera")
    WinClose($hwnd)
    Sleep(2000)
EndIf
If WinExists("Firefox") Then
    $hwnd = WinGetHandle("Firefox")
    WinClose($hwnd)
    Sleep(2000)
EndIf

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This seems working just fine. I will test it for few days. Thank you all involved.

Opt("WinTitleMatchMode", 2)
    Sleep(2000)
If WinExists("Microsoft Outlook") Then
    $hwnd = WinGetHandle("Microsoft Outlook")
    WinClose($hwnd)
    Sleep(250)
EndIf
If WinExists("Opera") Then
    $hwnd = WinGetHandle("Opera")
    WinClose($hwnd)
    Sleep(250)
EndIf
If WinExists("Firefox") Then
    $hwnd = WinGetHandle("Firefox")
    WinClose($hwnd)
    Sleep(250)
EndIf
If WinExists("iTunes") Then
    $hwnd = WinGetHandle("iTunes")
    WinClose($hwnd)
    Sleep(250)
EndIf
Shutdown(0)
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