Can I close an application with Rainmeter?

[Sunspot2]

Searching in the Documentation I couldn't find that:

Is it possible to close an application or kill a process with Rainmeter?

[poiru]

You could use nircmd (http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/nircmd.html) and then

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!execute ["PATH\nircmd.exe" killprocess process.exe]

Remember to replace PATH with path to nircmd.exe

[jsmorley]

Not with native Rainmeter, but there are tons of little "kill" utilities out there (or an AutoIt3 / nircmd script) that could be used with your skin like this:

LeftMouseAction=!Execute ["KillApp.exe" "processnametokill"]

[Sunspot2]

Nice. TY all!

[dragonmage]

Also if you prefer to be nice about it, some applications have a commandline argument to exit the application, you would send it like any command.

[sl23]

I don't suppose Rainmeter has been updated to support this?

EDIT: I found out how to do this via .bat file. But would be a good to know if Rm has had this function added or not.

[jsmorley]

I don't suppose Rainmeter has been updated to support this?

EDIT: I found out how to do this via .bat file. But would be a good to know if Rm has had this function added or not.

It does not. Rainmeter has no native way to close an application other than itself. There is no good safe way to do that, since a great many processes in Windows would be fairly disastrous to kill while Windows is running.

I would think a Powershell or cmd.exe Taskkill command in a RunCommand measure would work good for this. I'd be hesitant to call an external .bat file.

[sl23]

It does not. Rainmeter has no native way to close an application other than itself. There is no good safe way to do that, since a great many processes in Windows would be fairly disastrous to kill while Windows is running.

I would think a Powershell command in a RunCommand measure would work good for this. I'd be hesitant to call an external .bat file.

Hmm, ok, Thanks, I'll look into that. Perhaps it's easier to just stick with NirCMD then?

[jsmorley]

Hmm, ok, Thanks, I'll look into that. Perhaps it's easier to just stick with NirCMD then?

Nah, it's easy to do in Powershell or cmd.exe using RunCommand.

[sl23]

Powershell scares me though!