Command to close/run DesktopX and ObjectDock?

Friday, March 7, 2003 by MogWaEE | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk

I'm getting frustrated at the fact that my DesktopX icons (using IconX tech) keep on getting reset and that my ObjectDock looses focuse each time I pop out of a game (ex: BF1942, SimCity 4...). I have to close each app b4 launching a game, and relaunch them when coming out... I am looking to create small run.bat and close.bat files to run/close these apps. Anyone know how to do this?

Thanks in advance.
KenLin
Reply #1 Saturday, March 8, 2003 12:01 PM
If you have the NT resource kit, you could use kill.exe. There is probably some freeware out there that does the same thing. I don't know if getting 'killed' would have any adverse affects on either program.

run.bat should be pretty simple.

"C:\Program Files\Object Desktop\DesktopX\desktopx.exe"
"C:\Program Files\ObjectDock\ObjectDock.exe"
MogWaEE
Reply #2 Monday, March 10, 2003 9:47 PM
Yeah, I had figured that part... Anyone know how to kill an app through a dos command in XP? There's got to be a way .
kthxbye
Reply #3 Monday, March 10, 2003 9:51 PM
If you run XP Pro, good things come to those who look.

taskkill /?

XP Home? It's probably not included.

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