John said:
No, that's not what I mean. See, I have a fiber optic connection so
I'm always online. When I decide to surf, I have a batch file that
opens Mozilla, WebWasher and Cookiecop (not necessarily in that
order.) That works fine for starting the programs, but unfortunately I
can't come up with a way to shut down WebWasher and CookieCop, both of
which run in the tray. Mozilla is easy to close, of course.
John
I have *exactly* the same requirement. I gave up on NetLaunch and
similar because they were buggy with certain things. The shutdown is as
I described in the batch file. The startup I achieve using a similar
batch file, but with shortcuts to the appropriate programs (don't forget
required startup switches). You can then put a shortcut to your StartUp
batch file in your Startup folder and that's it.
I also cleaned out msconfig (mine was full of old duplicates) and
extracted the appropriate registry keys as backup - also to get the
appropriate commandlines to start the "startup" programs. Whew!
Longwinded but now everything starts & shuts down cleanly from good ol'
batch files. My shutdown one is this FYI:
D:\Utilities\pv\pv.exe -k -f OUTPOST.EXE
rem D:\Utilities\pv\pv.exe -k -f AVGCC32.EXE
D:\Utilities\pv\pv.exe -k -f PROXOMITRON.EXE
D:\Utilities\pv\pv.exe -k -f cookie.exe
D:\Utilities\pv\pv.exe -k -f vmail.exe
rem D:\Utilities\pv\pv.exe -k -f trayman.exe
Note that these are "forced" process kills, which can have their
drawbacks. For instance, if I've added a filter to Prox while surfing,
and not saved the config, then changes will be lost. Had I tried to
close it normally, I'd have been offered the chance to save changes.
HTH
