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Sam
Sam

Reputation: 11

Bat File to close Program after 5 minutes of inactivity

First off, some background: I'm a student on co-op at an engineering firm, and I need to write a .bat file to close a scanning program after 5 minutes of not being use. the scanner is on a local network, and won't let anyone open the program to scan anything if someone else is using it.

So my question is whether or not there is a .bat command that can check inactivity, like measure how long it's been since someone has clicked a button, and after 5 minutes of nothing, close the program.

I've made a file that will open the program, and close it after a 5 minute timer, which will suffice for now, but I want to try to make it better. Any advice would be great! Thanks!

@echo off
cd "C:\WINDOWS\twain_32\escndv"
start escndv.exe >NUL

PING 1.1.1.1 -n 1 -w 300000 >NUL

Taskkill /im escndv.exe >NUL

echo Epson GT-20000 has been terminated due to inactivity

PAUSE

I have minimal experience with .bat files, so what I have is from a couple hours looking around on Google.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 8897

Answers (1)

Bali C
Bali C

Reputation: 31221

You could try something like this:

schtasks /create /sc ONIDLE /i 5 /tn scanner /tr closescanner.bat

This will create a scheduled task to run closescanner.bat when the pc has been idle for 5 minutes.

Just create a separate batch file called closescanner.bat with Taskkill /im escndv.exe >NUL inside to close the app when no-one has touched the pc for 5mins.

Hope this helps!

Upvotes: 3

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