How to Use Batch File to Start and Stop the exe

In this blog, you will learn how to create your batch file to start and stop the exe and also how to check that file is exist or not.

In this blog, you will learn how to create your batch file to start and stop the exe and also how to check that file is exist or not.

If you want to create your bat file to start and stop the exe then write your logic on notepad and save it "batchname.bat" and to start an exe file from a batch file in Windows, start command is used for starting the exe from batch.

For example, to start the notepad you can use following command.

START C:\Windows\NOTEPAD.EXE

Here is an all batch file solution (a variation of my other answer) that will zip a file named c:\ue_english.txt and put it in C:\someArchive.zip.

set FILETOZIP=c:\ue_english.txt

    set TEMPDIR=C:\temp738
    rmdir %TEMPDIR%
    mkdir %TEMPDIR%
    xcopy /s %FILETOZIP% %TEMPDIR%

    echo Set objArgs = WScript.Arguments > _zipIt.vbs
    echo InputFolder = objArgs(0) >> _zipIt.vbs
    echo ZipFile = objArgs(1) >> _zipIt.vbs
    echo CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject").CreateTextFile(ZipFile, True).Write "PK" ^& Chr(5) ^& Chr(6) ^& String(18, vbNullChar) >> _zipIt.vbs
    echo Set objShell = CreateObject("Shell.Application") >> _zipIt.vbs
    echo Set source = objShell.NameSpace(InputFolder).Items >> _zipIt.vbs
    echo objShell.NameSpace(ZipFile).CopyHere(source) >> _zipIt.vbs
    echo wScript.Sleep 2000 >> _zipIt.vbs
    CScript  _zipIt.vbs  %TEMPDIR%  C:\someArchive.zip

    pause

You can use 'taskkill to kill the process. With the /IM parameter, you can specify image names. 

Example: 

taskkill /im somecorporateprocess.exe

You can also do this to 'force' kill, 

taskkill /f /im somecorporateprocess.exe

Hope you enjoyed this blog. Thanks for reading.