Killing autoit from command line (windows .bat file)?

[utahwebdev]

I'm running autoit scripts on different user accounts of a windows server 2008 machine and some of the .exe's that i have made are seemingly "acting up" as they are doing weird things, like running more than once when they shouldn't (i'm executing the script from within a vbscript)... I've been trying to figure out how kill the autoit exe from the command line but I'm not having any success, does anyone know what the correct command would be to do this?

[omikron48]

taskkill, look it up.

Better yet, you could have tried Googling: windows kill process.

[bo8ster]

I use taskkill

omikron48 - just beat me to it - seconds in it.

Edited June 11, 2010 by bo8ster

[omikron48]

FIRST!

[bo8ster]

LOL!

The complete solution

taskkill /IM autoit3.exe /F /T

I put that in a bat file in my quick launch.

[utahwebdev]

yeah i know about taskkill,i was asking for what specifically to kill as everything i had tried was not working, (also autoit.exe doesn't show up anywhere it seems in the windows process monitor, etc as I was checking this) i tried something close this "taskkill /IM autoit3.exe /F /T" and it didn't work but i'll try this specifically to see if it works

Edited June 11, 2010 by utahwebdev

[KaFu]

#Region ;**** Directives created by AutoIt3Wrapper_GUI ****
#AutoIt3Wrapper_outfile=processclose.exe
#EndRegion ;**** Directives created by AutoIt3Wrapper_GUI ****
; Compile and call with "processclose.exe autoit3.exe"
$timer = TimerInit()
while ProcessExists($CmdLineRaw)
    ProcessClose($CmdLineRaw)
    if TimerDiff($timer) > 5000 Then
        MsgBox(16+262144,"Processclose Error","Not all instances of " & $CmdLineRaw & " could be killed in 5 seconds...")
        Exit
    endif
WEnd

Edited June 11, 2010 by KaFu

[utahwebdev]

well that command didn't work, I don't know if its because I'm using windows server, or what, but after trying this more I realized it shows up as a process called "apgmgmt" or something like that so I will see if I can try to kill that

[utahwebdev]

#Region ;**** Directives created by AutoIt3Wrapper_GUI ****
#AutoIt3Wrapper_outfile=processclose.exe
#EndRegion ;**** Directives created by AutoIt3Wrapper_GUI ****
; Compile and call with "processclose.exe autoit3.exe"
$timer = TimerInit()
while ProcessExists($CmdLineRaw)
    ProcessClose($CmdLineRaw)
    if TimerDiff($timer) > 5000 Then
        MsgBox(16+262144,"Processclose Error","Not all instances of " & $CmdLineRaw & " could be killed in 5 seconds...")
        Exit
    endif
WEnd

thanks, thats the better way to do it, I should have thought of doing it that way in vbscript

[Richard Robertson]

You can't use $CmdLineRaw because that includes the AutoIt script in the string.