Right, so I run portable apps so I can take work home, retain my settings and such, this involves opening several apps at the start of the day, and closing them at the end.

Making a batch file for opening them, easy, cake. Done. Well, I'd like to check if they're open first to stop me from inadvertantly opening apps twice, but apart from that, easy.

For closing? Not so much: I want to close the portable apps I've got open. Normall,y taskkill would work fine for this, but if not forced, it minimizes some apps to the tray, as this is the way that they're configured, and if I do force it, it'll force the process to end, without giving me the usual 'Do you want to save this session?' options I use in Portable Firefox.

So what I really need is something that'll attempt to end a process normally, without forcing it to end, and without simply minimizing particularly configured apps to the system tray. If I can use taskkill with particular options to do this, great, if not, can anyone suggest another small, free app that might do this?

Cheers.

Do you have the setting somewhere within the application not to "Close to tray". If you have that option cleared, you should be able to close it with taskkill without the /F switch.

Other links:

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/d....mspx?mfr=true

http://www.google.com/search?sourcei...taskkill%2eexe

I know I can disable that, but I actually prefer them set like that whilst I'm using them!

Wonder if there are any thirdparty apps out there that'll do the job.