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I'm working on an automated enterprise program installation that includes multiple application installs.

During one of the individual installations, the application launches a process that is sent to the system tray. Let's call it "something.exe"

It cannot be accessed through a window, it's just a tray program that is running. And, there's no hot-key to activate the application.

But, in order for the installation to continue, I have to terminate that exe.

Here are two code snippets of what I've been trying:

$Process = "something.exe"
while 1

    If ProcessExists($Process) Then
        ProcessClose($Process, 2)
        Sleep(5000)
    EndIf
WEnd
MsgBox(0,"",$Process & " Terminated",0)
Exit

And

$Process = "something.exe"

while 1
    If ProcessExists($Process) Then
       Do
            ProcessClose($Process, 2)
       Until Not ProcessExists($Process)
       EndIf
WEnd

MsgBox(0,"",$Process & " Terminated",0)

Exit

In both cases, the compiled AutoIt exe runs then pauses. It never closes the process and the application never ends itself.

I've also just tried simply:

$Process = "something.exe"
ProcessClose($process)

and

$Process = "something.exe"
ProcessWaitClose($process)

With similar results.

Additionally, I'm using the local admin to perform all the steps within the script. I use the RunAsWait() as one of the first functions in the script.

From what I'm reading,

ProcessClose($Process, 2)
should forcefully close the process. But, it's not. Is there an altnerate method?

Thanks

Ted

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If you could give some insight to the application, we may be able to help automate closing it; but if it's a protected process like a virus scanner, this is not the right forum.

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If you could give some insight to the application, we may be able to help automate closing it; but if it's a protected process like a virus scanner, this is not the right forum.

The application is a proprietary application. QA Director from Compuware.

The application itself is a little exe that's called a "test execution server". I can right click on it and select exit as any logged in user (admin or otherwise).

Is there a way to use AutoIt to block a process from executing?

Ted

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From what I'm reading,

ProcessClose($Process, 2)
should forcefully close the process. But, it's not. Is there an altnerate method?
I wonder, did you read this part:

ProcessClose

Parameters

process The title or PID of the process to terminate.

flag [optional] if different from zero will force closing of handles to child stream if any defined in the Run() execution. process must be defined as a PID.

So if you have

$Process = "something.exe"

then it should be

ProcessClose(ProcessExists($Process), 1)

Edited by Siao

"be smart, drink your wine"

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Siao,

Yes, I tried that as well. Sorry did not include that in the original post.

But, that did not work as well.

Ted

I wonder, did you read this part:

So if you have

$Process = "something.exe"

then it should be

ProcessClose(ProcessExists($Process), 1)

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Thanks Richard, I will do some digging and experimenting with that.

If I figure it out, I will post my solution.

Ted

There are tray management functions that let you interact with the tray icons and menus. I believe they are UDFs and you can find them by trying different search terms. Try searching for something like "+system +tray +menu".

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Wow, this worked great.

Because the process didn't close 100% of the time using ProcessClose() I followed Richard's suggestion and found the discussion related to SysTray_UDF.

So, here's how I closed that exe (generic code follows. replace something.exe with your tray app executable name)

#include <SysTray_UDF.au3>

clickfunc()

Func clickfunc()
    $index = _SysTrayIconIndex("something.exe", 0)
    $pos = _SysTrayIconPos($index)

    MouseClick("Right", $pos[0], $pos[1], 2)
    Send("x")
EndFunc ;==>clickfunc
Exit

Many thanks to the SysTray_UDF reference. I got the solution from the large taupe thread.

SysTray_UDF Thread

Note: If you use the code above, you can't use the systray_udf file found in the general install! You have to use the one found here: NEW SysTray_UDF.au3

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