Scheduled task question

[Bill]

Is there an interface somewhere that would provide
a scheduled task means of cancelling an application,
e.g., Outlook Express? (or ANY regularly running
applications that could interfere with backup jobs.)

Thanks,
Bill

 

[Ayush]

Click Start > Run > cmd
Type taskkill /?

Use taskkill to kill the applications

 

[Bill]

I tried:

cmd taskkill /c msimn.exe
cmd taskkill /c "msimn.exe"
cmd taskkill /c "outlook express"

None of those commands cancelled OE

What am I not getting here?

Bill

Click Start > Run > cmd
Type taskkill /?

Use taskkill to kill the applications


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Is there an interface somewhere that would provide
a scheduled task means of cancelling an application,
e.g., Outlook Express? (or ANY regularly running
applications that could interfere with backup jobs.)

Thanks,
Bill

 

[Shenan Stanley]

Is there an interface somewhere that would provide
a scheduled task means of cancelling an application,
e.g., Outlook Express? (or ANY regularly running
applications that could interfere with backup jobs.)

Click Start > Run > cmd
Type taskkill /?

Use taskkill to kill the applications

I tried:

cmd taskkill /c msimn.exe
cmd taskkill /c "msimn.exe"
cmd taskkill /c "outlook express"

None of those commands cancelled OE

What am I not getting here?

You are not reading up on how to use the tool.

Start button --> RUN --> cmd /k taskkill /? --> OK

That will list the switches and examples and such.

For you, this is the command you want:

taskkill /F /T /IM "msimn.exe"

That would kill all branches of the Outlook Express tree - all open windows
spawned from it, etc. Forcing it to close. Based off the name of the
process. Tasklist can be used to get process names (current process names)
in the command line.

 

[Ayush]

Shenan told you how to do it but keep in mind that this can result in data
corruption. specailly in the case of killing Outlook Express when it is
processing the files.

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I tried:

cmd taskkill /c msimn.exe
cmd taskkill /c "msimn.exe"
cmd taskkill /c "outlook express"

None of those commands cancelled OE

What am I not getting here?

Bill

Click Start > Run > cmd
Type taskkill /?

Use taskkill to kill the applications


--
Ayush [ Be ''?'' Happy ]
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Is there an interface somewhere that would provide
a scheduled task means of cancelling an application,
e.g., Outlook Express? (or ANY regularly running
applications that could interfere with backup jobs.)

Thanks,
Bill

 

[Bill]

Yes, I was aware of the exposure and I'll likely not elect
to kill OE for that reason, or any other tasks that might
be "file-active".
Bill

Shenan told you how to do it but keep in mind that this can result in data
corruption. specailly in the case of killing Outlook Express when it is
processing the files.

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Ayush [ Be ''?'' Happy ]
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I tried:

cmd taskkill /c msimn.exe
cmd taskkill /c "msimn.exe"
cmd taskkill /c "outlook express"

None of those commands cancelled OE

What am I not getting here?

Bill

Click Start > Run > cmd
Type taskkill /?

Use taskkill to kill the applications


--
Ayush [ Be ''?'' Happy ]
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Search - www.Google.com | Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org
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Replid to [Bill]s message :
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Is there an interface somewhere that would provide
a scheduled task means of cancelling an application,
e.g., Outlook Express? (or ANY regularly running
applications that could interfere with backup jobs.)

Thanks,
Bill