| Close Specific Windows Applications Automatically
With CLOSEAPP.EXE
Today I was creating a self extracting .exe
file that would install Citrix Metaframe Conferencing Manager's Outlook
Toolbar Add-In. I had intentions that I would e-mail the link to the
.EXE to all my users. The problem is that they never close
Outlook BEFORE running the apps I send. This particular add-in seemed
to really screw up Outlook when it was run with the application open.
I needed to find a way to first ensure that Outlook was closed.
One quick Google search later and I found a great cheap tool called
CLOSEAPP.EXE from
Traction
Software in the UK The tool is only $9.95 for a single user and
get this. $49.95 for a site license. What a great deal this is
considering all the times I've wanted to kill processes but didn't know the
PIDS. In my case I just put closeapp.exe "outlook.exe" in my script
and walaa.
Once my add-in was done installing I thought it would be nice to re-open
Outlook for my users. I used
WAIT.EXE to pause the script for fifteen
seconds then called outlook.exe from its program folder. The
combination of these tools made for a clean professional looking script that
got my add-in deployed.
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