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To check for chrome.exe:<br />

<pre><code id="code-20-40674598-1">tasklist /FI &quot;IMAGENAME eq chrome.exe&quot;</code></pre>
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To check for chrome.exe:


tasklist /FI "IMAGENAME eq chrome.exe"

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Steve Knight,<br />
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Great.<br />
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Now, to show you my naivete, do I create a txt file with that sor of commands in it &amp;&nbsp;make it a Windows Scheduled Task run when I want to?<br />
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Thanks
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Steve Knight,

Great.

Now, to show you my naivete, do I create a txt file with that sor of commands in it & make it a Windows Scheduled Task run when I want to?

Thanks

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Thanks and spilt points fine! I'm out at mo so on mobile if anything extra needed just ask and one of us can clarify.<br />
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Steve
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Thanks and spilt points fine! I'm out at mo so on mobile if anything extra needed just ask and one of us can clarify.

Steve

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Is there a way to write a windows scripting script to detect if a specific application is open &amp;&nbsp;if so to close it?<br />
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Can the converse be done, that is, if application is NOT running, start it?<br />
<br />
Thanks
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Is there a way to write a windows scripting script to detect if a specific application is open & if so to close it?

Can the converse be done, that is, if application is NOT running, start it?

Thanks

Windows Scripting

Batch files are text files containing a script of commands that are executed by the command interpreter on DOS, OS/2 and Windows systems. Most commonly, they are used to perform a series of functions that are repeated -- copying a set of files created daily with one step, for example.

Windows Batch

A scripting language is a programming language that supports scripts, programs written for a special run-time environment that automate the execution of tasks that could alternatively be executed one-by-one by a human operator. Scripting languages are often interpreted (rather than compiled). Primitives are usually the elementary tasks or API calls, and the language allows them to be combined into more complex programs. Environments that can be automated through scripting include software applications, web pages within a web browser, the shells of operating systems (OS), embedded systems, as well as numerous games. A scripting language can be viewed as a domain-specific language for a particular environment; in the case of scripting an application, this is also known as an extension language.