You bet! You can do nearly anything with coding.
I recomended WinBatch because it designed for tasks like the one you want to
perform, but if you are not used to scripting, you might find it
overwhelming. I think you can download a trial copy to see if it is to your
liking, but I think scripting in some form will be needed to do what you need
to do. AutoIt is another scripting language to explore. Below are links to
try...
http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/
http://www.winbatch.com/
Vinson
"Jeremy P Ferguson" wrote:
> The client is an application on the local computer (Thick Client ?) this is
> the program that I am looking to shut down can I do this through scripting?
>
> "Vinson" wrote:
>
> > If you are good a scripting, you might explore WinBatch. It would be a
> > simple matter to create program that could countdown from 15 minutes (you
> > could even show this countdown on the thin-client's title bar) which would
> > ultimately close the program. Since Winbatch can also read certain dialogs
> > and such, you could have it reset if it sees a label apearing such as "Saving
> > work..." making only idle time count against the user. Obviously, this would
> > take some experimentation and may need to be attacked from another angle, but
> > the sky is usually the limit with coding creativity.
> >
> > Vinson
> >
> > "Jeremy P Ferguson" wrote:
> >
> > > We have some client / server software that is needed by everyone in the
> > > company but not all at one time to keep cost down we have about 200 users and
> > > 30 licences. This works well when users do there job and then shut down the
> > > client side, thing is this is not happening. I am looking for a way of
> > > closing the client automatically if it has been inactive for as 15 minutes.
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