Start and taskkill an application

[Dynaletik]

For my unattended install I have to start Outlook Express and directly close it again. (On first start OE writes it's useraccounts into the registry that I want to delete.)

But when I call it like this

start "%programfiles%\Outlook Express\msimn.exe"

then the batchfile waits until I close Outlook Express.

Even if I put

taskkill.exe /F /IM msimn.exe

behind the code the batch file doesn't continue until I close Outlook Express.

How can I call Outlook Express and close it after a few seconds, for example with

sleep.exe 3[code]?

[mattofak]

why do you want to delete those accounts? oe will recreate them the next time a user logs in since oe is based on user profiles not computer profiles...

[dennxyz]

In your first batch file, call a second batch to start your application

add sleep XX amount of time in your first batch to give the app time

to start, then kill the app in your original batch.

I' can post my code later tonight

I use this to copy my settings/bookmarks into Opera as the profile is

not created until it has started once.