taskkill.exe help request

[coucou]

Hi,

I have 2 questions about this tool.

1) I found the silent install switch for hkSFV 2.0 utility. hksfvSetup.exe /S. The problem is that the (Windows Exlporer) group of this utility is opened at the end of the installation. when itested taskkill.exe /F /IM explorer.exe all my desktop was cleared and i had to reboot.

Is there any how to close that group???

2) What difference between taskill and pskill

TNX

coucou

[Bâshrat the Sneaky]

1) That's normal. But you don't have to reboot... Just restart explorer

START explorer.exe

As a test, you could do this: end explorer.exe in Task Manager and then using the 'File > New Task (Run...)' menu to enter 'explorer.exe' and you will see you will get your desktop back

2)-taskkill is included in Windows XP by default

-pskill is a more advanced version of it and is part of the PStools, which includes several other very useful command line tools.

[Achdine]

Try using NirCMD.exe. I've never used pskill, but NirCMD can:

~kill processes based on process name or ID.

~close windows based on handle/ID/class/title/part of the title/beginning of the title.

The ability to close windows would allow you to close your explorer window without having to restart the shell, and without opening a cmd window. Just use a command like

NirCMD win close title "C:\Program Files\hkSFV"

You can find this 24 kb utility here.

[Martin Zugec]

I am using wmic for tasks like this I can kill processes by almost any filter, including vendor etc...

[coucou]

TNX all for yr help,

Finally i used Achdine way

nircmd.exe win close title "C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Start Menu\Programs\hkSFV"

Regards

coucou

[coucou]

Here I found how to disable and remove a special icon in the tray

For example when installing CloneCD, it create a CloneCD Tray icon.

Here the .reg file to disable and remove it

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]
"CloneCDTray"=-

as the register need to be refreshed, the icon tray will be removed on next reboot.

BTW: i added this reg disable and remove line to my Key.CloneCD.reg

Regards

coucou