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windowsautohotkeypidexplorer
Sam
Sam

Reputation: 157

AHK find pid of explorer.exe?

This relates to this question.

How can I make an if statement in AutoHotKey which runs if the current application is not explorer.exe. This it to prevent the script from quitting explorer.exe, which it originally did (if I was on explorer).

Current script (which doesn't quit anything at all):

Pause::
WinGet,win_pid,PID,ProcessName,A
if (ProcessName != "explorer.exe") {
Run,taskkill /f /pid %win_pid%,,,
return
} else {
return
}

Original script (which successfully quits the last app, including explorer [if that was the last app]):

Pause::
WinGet,win_pid,PID,A
Run,taskkill /f /pid %win_pid%,,,
return

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2728

Answers (2)

Mister Robato
Mister Robato

Reputation: 176

Try one of the following:

1. Run, taskkill.exe /f /pid %win_pid%
2. Run, cmd /c taskkill.exe /f /pid %win_pid%
3. Run, *RunAs taskkill.exe /f /pid %win_pid%
4. Run, *RunAs cmd /c taskkill.exe /f /pid %win_pid%

The *RunAs should run as admin without the need to manually run as admin.

Upvotes: 0

0x464e
0x464e

Reputation: 6489

First the stuff that's wrong in your script:
You're using WinGet with the sub-command PID.
It takes the following parameters:
WinGet, OutputVar, PID [, WinTitle, WinText, ExcludeTitle, ExcludeText]
As you can see, the last two arguments you pass make no sense. You're trying to match a window with the title "ProcessName" and it also has to contain the text "A".
If you wanted to get the process name, you'd use the intended WinGet sub-command for it like so:

WinGet, output, ProcessName, A ;A, as a WinTitle, means the currently active window
MsgBox, % output

However, there's no need to go about it this way. There are way easier ways.
I'll now show and explain the best way, creating a context sensitive hotkey by using #directives.
Specifically the #IfWinNotActive is what you want to use.
In the WinTitle parameter we can refer to the explorer window straight via its process name by the use of ahk_exe. 

#IfWinNotActive, ahk_exe explorer.exe
Pause::
    WinGet, win_pid, PID, A
    Run, taskkill /f /pid %win_pid%
return
#IfWinNotActive

And now we have a hotkey that will only trigger if the active window is not explorer.

Upvotes: 1

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