Is there a command to close a running program

[serendipity]

TSKILL defraggler in cmd worked!
But again,

run "cmd /c TSKILL defraggler"

does not work!

where are you trying that command from?
address bar?

PS: are you using :: in front of run?

[Huidong]

Things go weird. I run the command from Scripting - Run Script... on the menu.
I rebooted by machine and once again I can kill notepad with that command. then I run the following:

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"Defrag selected (Recursive)"
  run "cmd /c tskill defraggler";
  open '"D:\Portable\Defraggler\df.exe" <selitems> /S';

Defraggler did not get killed, and df.exe wasn't run either; then I tried the same command to kill notepad, this time, it failed!
Then I rebooted my machine again, and tried to kill notepad, still it failed!
Any clue?

[Huidong]

Also later I changed the line to

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run "cmd /c tskill defraggler", , 1;

But at that time I can't even kill notepad!

[serendipity]

Things go weird. I run the command from Scripting - Run Script... on the menu.
I rebooted by machine and once again I can kill notepad with that command. then I run the following:

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"Defrag selected (Recursive)"
  run "cmd /c tskill defraggler";
  open '"D:\Portable\Defraggler\df.exe" <selitems> /S';

Defraggler did not get killed, and df.exe wasn't run either; then I tried the same command to kill notepad, this time, it failed!
Then I rebooted my machine again, and tried to kill notepad, still it failed!
Any clue?

Sorry, no idea. Except make sure that before "run" and "open" you have atleast one space.

[Huidong]

Yes I have two spaces. I mean this is not a particular problem for defraggler, it's all about running cmd /c tskill thru XY, It worked twice, for both notepad and defraggler! Then the same command stops working! But running cmd.exe alone always work. I guess that's the problem of XY?

[nas8e9]

TSKILL defraggler in cmd worked!
But again,

run "cmd /c TSKILL defraggler"

does not work!

I can't get it to work either; Sysinternals pskill (as described above) however does work for me on Windows 7 x64 SP1.

[Huidong]

Could you show me how to use pskill, please?

[Huidong]

I tried

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run "pskill -t defraggler"

in XY, didn't work, but in cmd.exe, it worked. I put pskill in system32.
What's wrong here?

[serendipity]

Yes I have two spaces. I mean this is not a particular problem for defraggler, it's all about running cmd /c tskill thru XY, It worked twice, for both notepad and defraggler! Then the same command stops working! But running cmd.exe alone always work. I guess that's the problem of XY?

Should have asked earlier, how about:
run (TSKILL defraggler);

[Huidong]

Holy sh*t!!! I finally figured out what was the problem!!! Not about using either cmd or pskill, the nasty, mysterious "bug" is that when the current tab is a folder in a sandbox (using Sandboxie), then neither run "cmd ..." nor run "pskill" works, however, when the current tab is not in a sandboxed folder, as far as I know, any place except in the sandbox, both cmd and pskill work!!! This is mysterious, since I thought running a command from Scripting - Run Script... should not have anything to do with the current tab location! Any clue what's going on?? Ghost!

[serendipity]

Holy sh*t!!! I finally figured out what was the problem!!! Not about using either cmd or pskill, the nasty, mysterious "bug" is that when the current tab is a folder in a sandbox (using Sandboxie), then neither run "cmd ..." nor run "pskill" works, however, when the current tab is not in a sandboxed folder, as far as I know, any place except in the sandbox, both cmd and pskill work!!! This is mysterious, since I thought running a command from Scripting - Run Script... should not have anything to do with the current tab location! Any clue what's going on?? Ghost!

OK so that's the culprit. when you run:
::run "cmd /c TSKILL defraggler"

it first starts cmd in that folder. you will see if you run cmd with /k instead of /c :
run "cmd /k TSKILL defraggler"

what happens with this?
run "cmd /K cd /d c:\ & TSKILL defraggler";

this will first go to c:\ and then execute the task kill.

[Huidong]

Really good news!
run "cmd /K cd /d c:\ & TSKILL defraggler";
did not work, but I did use your command to do sth very handy:

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"Run regedit as SYSTEM"
  run "cmd /k cd /d C:\Windows\System32\ & PsExec -s -i regedit"

Back to the issue, when I run tskill when the current tab is in sandbox, the cmd did open in C:\, but it reports that end process failed because access is denied. Moreover, even when the current tab is out of sandbox, in which case tskill can kill defraggler, but the cmd window remains open so the next command (calling df.exe) can not start. This did not happen using /c.
But thanks very much, learning a lot of things.

[Huidong]

Can you explain what /d is for? THanks

[nas8e9]

Can you explain what /d is for? THanks

It's a parameter of the cd (change directory) command that makes cd traverse drive boundaries; without it

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cd c:\windows\system32

while the current location is on D:, wouldn't change to C:; when entering just C: however, you would be in \windows\system32. The /d parameter changes the current location as well, i.e. if the current location is on D: you'd end up in C:\Windows\System32 without first having to enter just C:.

[PeterH]

I don't understand exactly what you mean with "current tab is in sandbox"

But as I understand the function of a sandbox, then it's to disallow changes from inside to the outside - especially killing tasks outside of the sandbox? That is: keep system safe, whatever program in sandbox tries to do...