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Thanks!<br />
Will go for taskkill.<br />
Tried to do this (as mentioned in my question) within wmplayer, but found that it wasn't 100&amp; reliable in my testing.
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Thanks!
Will go for taskkill.
Tried to do this (as mentioned in my question) within wmplayer, but found that it wasn't 100& reliable in my testing.

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I'm setting up a Win 10 PC that will run Windows media player with different media sources (audio) at different times during the day. Have found two ways to do this - <br />
One is to have wmplayer stop any running instances when starting a new task (under &nbsp;the task settings). <br />
The other way is to run two actions: &nbsp;first a taskkill /IM wmplayer.exe and then wmplayer /Playlist mylist.<br />
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Using taskkill seems more &quot;brutal&quot;, but I don't have any experienc when it comes to terminating applications this way.. &nbsp;<br />
Any comments?
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I'm setting up a Win 10 PC that will run Windows media player with different media sources (audio) at different times during the day. Have found two ways to do this - 
One is to have wmplayer stop any running instances when starting a new task (under  the task settings). 
The other way is to run two actions:  first a taskkill /IM wmplayer.exe and then wmplayer /Playlist mylist.

Using taskkill seems more "brutal", but I don't have any experienc when it comes to terminating applications this way..  
Any comments?

Switching between tasks in Windows Task Scheduler

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