Batch file -- help

[Lebanese_007]

HI all, i'm trying to write a batch file that does an if statement and loop in the same time.

one of our system sometimes get hosed, so in order to fix it, i need to kill some processes, we have an application that has several processes with the same name, it is called extras.exe, sometimes it has 9 processes, sometimes are 12.

My question is how can i write a batch file that checks for those processes, keeps killing those processes until there is no process anymore, becuase if i tell it to kill 9 processes and there were 10, 1 process will stay there, if i tell it to kill 12 and there were 10, it will freeze up.

thanks for your help

[Nazgul]

Couldn't you just do a taskkill /IM extras.exe, which will kill all running processes with the name of extras.exe?