.BAT file to kill all running programs and log off?

InsomniaCalls · 2 Aug 2006 at 10:58

Trying to write a .BAT file to kill off all my programs at the end of the day and log off.
I've got one to launch all of my programs and I want one to basically do the opposite.
I'm aware of the KILLTASK command but unfortunately I'm on Win2k which puts a stop to that.
Not allowed to install any additional software so really need to use the existing utils within Windows.

Any ideas?

TIA

Si.

bledd · 2 Aug 2006 at 11:20

go to sysinternals.com and download pstools

pskill.exe for the programs
psshutdown.exe for the logoff

best commandline toolkit site ever, so good MS has now made the guys employees!

freeware

nade · 2 Aug 2006 at 11:42

What bledd. said above ^

psshutdown has an option -o which logs off the console user on the machine. I would have thought logoff should in effect kill most running tasks (other than any services started).

Burnsy2023 · 2 Aug 2006 at 12:49

shutdown -L -F

Logs the machine off and forces the termination of all tasks.

Easy.

Burnsy

Edit: and use the 'at' command for specifying a time. I think thats now depriciated, but there's a direct replacement.

InsomniaCalls · 2 Aug 2006 at 13:04

Fairly sure "at hh:mm /interactive something.exe" still works in 2k and XP.
Cheers guys.

bledd · 2 Aug 2006 at 13:06

good thing to use is the pstools, inconjunction with scheduled tasks, you can tell it exactly when to launch then..

InsomniaCalls · 2 Aug 2006 at 13:09

Ended up with pskill.exe from sysinternals and logoff.exe from the win2k resource kit.
Shutdown isn't recognised as a command - may have been disabled by IS :/

bledd · 2 Aug 2006 at 13:13

InsomniaCalls said:
Ended up with pskill.exe from sysinternals and logoff.exe from the win2k resource kit.
Shutdown isn't recognised as a command - may have been disabled by IS :/

psshutdown from pstools does work

InsomniaCalls · 2 Aug 2006 at 13:47

Getting a bit of an issue with the .BAT where it seems to be looping.
It'll end all of the programs but then try and run the commands again.
Because the process no longer exists it asks if I want to abort the operation and just keeps looping for each process.

The .bat file is basically:

pskill SalesGUI.exe
pskill outlook.exe
pskill iexplore.exe
pskill Virtual PC.exe

logoff /n /f

Any ideas?

bledd · 2 Aug 2006 at 13:58

hmm..

might need

pskill "virtual pc"

if you whack the pstools into windows\system32 folder, then you can just type pskill sol.exe

in run box or form a bat file from anywhere

InsomniaCalls · 2 Aug 2006 at 14:27

Thanks but it doesn't seem to have made a difference tbh

It worked the first couple of times and I thought I had it cracked.
PITA.

InsomniaCalls · 2 Aug 2006 at 15:09

Aha - sorted.
I added a cd c:\winnt\system32 to the beginning and it works like a charm.
Cheers for all your help folks!