Exit Notification Area App Gracefully

Hi,

I want to use a PowerShell script to exit a Notification Area app
gracefully. I've tried the obvious commands - TaskKill.exe and TSKill, and
neither suits my purpose. This is because they either forcibly terminate the
app (ungracefully), or just close any open window, but leave the app running
in the notification area (system tray / systray). What I want to do is
equivalent to right-clicking the app's notification area icon and selecting
'exit', but this must be done programmatically.

Any help would be gratefully appreciated.

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Paul Anderson

Hi

Sending a friendly 'Close' message to its System menu should do it eg

#--------------------------
Function CloseApp {

param([string]$Name=$(Throw "Please specify an application name"))

$processes=[System.Diagnostics.Process]::GetProcessesByName($Name)
foreach ($Process in $Processes) {

$hwnd=$process.MainWindowHandle

$WM_SYSCOMMAND = 0x0112
$SC_CLOSE = 0xF060

if($hwnd){
[void] [Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("System.Windows.Forms")
| Out-Null
$message=[System.Windows.Forms.Message]::Create($hwnd,$WM_SYSCOMMAND,$SC_CLOSE,0)
$nativeWindow=new-object System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow
$nativeWindow.DefWndProc([ref]$message)
$nativeWindow=$null
}

} #Each process

} #Function
#--------------------------

CloseApp "notepad"
CloseApp -Name "sapisvr"

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Jon


"huddie" <paul.1.anderson.NOSPAM@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:BDE233CD-DD7A-4C90-9168-DF5406007F3D@xxxxxx

You'll probably need to play with that a bit. Only works if there's a
visible window ......

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Jon


"Jon" <Email_Address@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:eStQYaE3IHA.2580@xxxxxx

Many thanks Jon.

You're right. It only closes an open app window. It doesn't exit the app.
Basically, it minimises to the systray. Same as using the taskkill /im
imagename command.

I was wondering is there a message I can send to the app to *exit*. Would
WM_QUIT work ? Even if it would, I'm no programmer, so don't know how your
code could be adapted to do this.

Could you help me by giving me some idea how I could use something like this
to close down apps in the system tray ? Basically a File / Exit application
exit.
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--
Paul Anderson


"Jon" wrote:

"huddie" <paul.1.anderson.NOSPAM@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:F5EFEC43-05B3-41C2-A2BC-35B63965F9FC@xxxxxx

Hi Huddie

This may be a better approach. I do something similar to this to control
the behaviour of the sidebar in Vista.

If you're the one who initially starts an application, then you can keep a
hold on it, so to speak, and then terminate it (hopefully) gracefully when
appropriate.

#Start an application
$WshShell = New-Object -ComObject "WScript.Shell"
$oExec = $WshShell.Exec('notepad.exe')
$oExec = $WshShell.Exec('C:\Program Files\Windows Sidebar\sidebar.exe')

#Close it later
#start-sleep 10
$oExec.Terminate()
$WshShell = $oExec = $null

I think this uses wm_close messages under the hood, and seems to work better
with systray icons from what I can see.

Hope that helps anyhow.

--
Jon

"Jon" <Email_Address@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:%23bat6CG3IHA.2348@xxxxxx Should have been only one definition active for $oExec there ......

$WshShell = New-Object -ComObject "WScript.Shell"
#$oExec = $WshShell.Exec('notepad.exe')
$oExec = $WshShell.Exec('C:\Program Files\Windows Sidebar\sidebar.exe')

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Jon

On Jul 2, 5:32*pm, "Jon" <Email_Addr...@xxxxxx> wrote: That's great Jon. I'll give have a go at both starting and
terminating the apps using WSH. Thanks for the tip!