Update Ketarin programs without manually closing them

[Omniferum]

Just thought i'd share something that I use seeing as I have a LOT of apps this helps me as I don't have to manually find and close everything. This should work for XP and upwards.

 

All this does is exit all the programs that Ketarin would update.

 

To make it work for you, just change <putyourpathorportabledriveletterhere> to whatever your usual path ketarin installs its programs to. My install path is a global variable so it is easier for me. For example you might dump it all to \KetPrograms\

 

Use the below command (make it into a .bat file or put it in the execute before updating menu option)

for /f "tokens=1 delims=." %a in ('wmic process get Description^,ExecutablePath^,CommandLine ^| findstr .exe ^| findstr <putyourpathorportabledriveletterhere> ^| findstr /V cmd.exe ^| findstr /v explorer.exe ^| findstr /v notepad.exe ^| findstr /v findstr') do taskkill /f /im "%~na.exe"

Edited May 28, 2011 by Omniferum

[shawn]

You could also use "nircmd killprocess [processnames]"

http://nircmd.nirsoft.net/killprocess.html

 

Or nircmd closeprocess:

http://nircmd.nirsoft.net/closeprocess.html

[floele]

Doesn't Ketarin have such a functionality built in actually?

[Omniferum]

I do not know how Ketarin determines the process to kill, mine is just based on whatever process is utilizing the install path defined in Ketarin.

 

I saw the feature but don't really know its implementation

[floele]

You can define which process to close. Ketarin will then try the most "soft" method of closing the process.

[Omniferum]

Ah, so you have to predefine it. Fair enough.

 

I'll stick with my method, going through my odd 150+ apps just to define process' to terminate is a tad too time consuming.

 

Plus with mine it finds which process to kill for me, may not terminate it in the nicest way perhaps.

[CybTekSol]

@Omniferum,

 

Does your post of the batch file need 'code' tags?