Schedule a task to FINISH

Oneeyedvic | 07:30 Wed 23rd Aug 2006 | Technology

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I know how to get programs to start, but does anyone know how to schedule a program to finish.

Eg I want a program to close a program at 5.30pm - I would usually exit the program (and possibly click Yes to "are you sure you want to exit")

Any ideas / thoughts

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OBonio

pskill can close a program. http://www.sysinternals.com

It actually kills the program, rather than close it... or maybe it tries to close it then kills it if it can't. I can't remember. Will do what you want though.

Catso

As Obonio has suggested, you could use pskill, in conjunction with at.

But doing this would just terminate the process, not shut it down gracefully.

You could look at a macroing program. Record the key sequence to do the shutdown and then play it back using at.

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