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[PowerShell] - Graceful shutdown of a program

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blux Posted messages 2043 Registration date   Status Moderator Last intervention   -  
 Luc -
Hello,

I'm looking to terminate a program normally (simulating a click on the Windows close button or File/Close/Quit from the menu) with PowerShell.

So far, I have only found stop-process. But the problem is that it performs a forceful kill of the process. Programs like Firefox don't always recover from this (message on restart regarding a possible crash).

That's why I'm looking for the method that will allow me to close it cleanly.

I also tried 'taskkill' in the command line, but it does the same kind of damage...

A command, even in vbscript, would make me happy...

Thanks in advance.

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blux Posted messages 2043 Registration date   Status Moderator Last intervention   3 455
 
I found (long live Google in English):

get-process program_name | %{ $_.closemainwindow() }

In fact, we are asking to close the main window. It just took some thought!

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little boy62
 
Hi

Is this VB?


Catch you later and thanks for sharing your find ;)
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blux Posted messages 2043 Registration date   Status Moderator Last intervention   3 455
 
No, it's PowerShell...
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little boy62
 
Oh?


I will look into that


Thank you ;)
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little boy62
 
Hi :)

Yes, taskkill (like processclose in AutoIt) "kills" the process...

You basically want to simulate a left-click on the cross...

If I find that for you in AutoIt, would that be acceptable?

Because, I know how to simulate pressing alt+F4 in AutoIt: Is that not what you're looking for?

Otherwise, I don't know VBScript ;)

Anyway, good luck to you :)

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blux Posted messages 2043 Registration date   Status Moderator Last intervention   3 455
 
I'm looking for something standard on Windows.
I can't install external programs, otherwise my problem would have already been solved!
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little boy62
 
I'm going to see if I find anything in the command line


See you!
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Answer 3 / 3
little boy62
 
Hello

I don't know if this can help you, but well, nothing ventured, nothing gained ;)

https://www.generation-nt.com/reponses/fermer-application-proprement-entraide-2484831.html

EDIT: Even in AutoIt, the fact of doing processclose, Firefox says crash ^^

Same in command prompt...

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Luc
 
The syntaxes below work:

Process:
get-process -name chrome* -computername 127.0.0.1 | stop-process
get-process chrome* | start-process

Services:
get-service -name BITS -computername 127.0.0.1 | stop-service
get-service chrome* | start-service
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