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TASKEND vs. KILL.EXE

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Microsofts KILL.EXE, without "-f" (force), will terminate a FireFox session.
TASKEND, without "/F", will not. This is significant in that if I use "TASKEND
/F" ("/F" needed) on a ForeFox process then the next time I start FireFox I'm
prompted to restore the previous, interrupted, session; whereas, with KILL
(without "-f") I am not so prompted.
 
What does TaskManager and/or Process Explorer do?

-Scott

vefatica <> wrote on 06/23/2008 01:12:27 PM:


> Microsofts KILL.EXE, without "-f" (force), will terminate a FireFox
session.

> TASKEND, without "/F", will not. This is significant in that if I use
"TASKEND

> /F" ("/F" needed) on a ForeFox process then the next time I start
FireFox I'm

> prompted to restore the previous, interrupted, session; whereas, with
KILL

> (without "-f") I am not so prompted.
>
>
 
On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:17:11 -0500, you wrote:


>What does TaskManager and/or Process Explorer do?

When I kill FireFox with TaskManager, a new one starts cleanly. When I kill it
with ProcessExplorer, I get the "resume session" prompt. It's somewhat
irrelevant since neither of those can be scripted.
 
Microsofts KILL.EXE, without "-f" (force), will terminate a FireFox session.
TASKEND, without "/F", will not. This is significant in that if I use "TASKEND
/F" ("/F" needed) on a ForeFox process then the next time I start FireFox I'm
prompted to restore the previous, interrupted, session; whereas, with KILL
(without "-f") I am not so prompted.

I managed to TASKEND Firefox properly but it required me to issue TASKEND <ff pid> several times quickly.

Also TASKEND for notepad2.exe took at least two TASKEND commands. For builtin notepad.exe a single TASKEND seems to work every time though.

As TASKEND /F simply kills/terminates the process instead of stopping it properly (sending SC_CLOSE to main window?) it naturally succeeds every time.
 
I managed to TASKEND Firefox properly but it required me to issue TASKEND <ff pid> several times quickly.

Also TASKEND for notepad2.exe took at least two TASKEND commands. For builtin notepad.exe a single TASKEND seems to work every time though.

As TASKEND /F simply kills/terminates the process instead of stopping it properly (sending SC_CLOSE to main window?) it naturally succeeds every time.

Are you sure you killed it? After 6 TASKENDs FireFox disappeared from my desktop. But it was still running!
 
Are you sure you killed it? After 6 TASKENDs FireFox disappeared from my desktop. But it was still running!

I checked with Process Explorer.

Sometimes Firefox may get stuck (permanently or just some seconds) when you close it, i.e. all FF windows are destroyed but the process is still running.
 
Another TASKEND issue.

When running as limited/normal user it displays this error message:

C:\>taskend 3944
TCC: (Sys) Not all privileges referenced are assigned to the caller.

It still does its thing though.
 
vefatica wrote:
| ---Quote (Originally by nikbackm)---
|| I managed to TASKEND Firefox properly but it required me to issue
|| TASKEND <ff pid> several times quickly.
||
|| Also TASKEND for notepad2.exe took at least two TASKEND commands. For
|| builtin notepad.exe a single TASKEND seems to work every time though.
||
|| As TASKEND /F simply kills/terminates the process instead of stopping
|| it properly (sending SC_CLOSE to main window?) it naturally succeeds
|| every time.
| ---End Quote---
| Are you sure you killed it? After 6 TASKENDs FireFox disappeared
| from my desktop. But it was still running!

My normal way to kill Firefox is to run this batch program (killfox.btm):

do while iswindow "*Firefox*"
activate "*Firefox*" close
delay 1
enddo

It works fine, and I don't get the "resume session/new" message from
Firefox.

TASKEND/F (for which I have the alias KILL) also terminated FF, but next
start (even with the -url option) had the resume/new option.

TASKEND without /F left 9 invsible FF windows (as reported by Vince's
WHICHWIN). All were closed by KILLFOX.
--
Steve
 

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