Closing tasks

Hello here!

Congrats to the best Utility at all! I am managing most of my Desktop & daily usage with StrokeIt and my Trackball, nothing beats ist.

One thing though. I would like to close and run a set of Apps, like closing them before using a ressource intensive program like MS Flight Simulator, and afterward starting those again. Starting is no Problem with the command RUN, but how to close apps with no windows but which are Trayicons and some that even don't have that. Is there a unique TaskID which I can use the "WinMsg" WM_QUIT or something else?

I hope you get my idea, thx for help.

Gilbert.

Hi Gilbert,

Nice question !

[url=http://www.robvanderwoude.com/processes.html]http://www.robvanderwoude.com/processes.html[/url]

knows the answers

for example open notepad and try this in the command line

TASKKILL /F /IM notepad.exe (winxp only)

:)

with best regards

Leo

Hi Leo!

Thanks for your reply! Unfortunately TASKKILL is a XP PRO only (I suffice with the Home Edition), so I googled for an alternative and learned two things:

First that I had that "Taskmanager Virus" which I had ignored up to then,
and second indeed found an alternative to TASKKILL:

[url=http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/pskill.shtml]http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/pskill.shtml[/url]
(I knew that site earlier and can recommend it!)

Merry Christmas :)