Stopping a script running on a Windows Server Box

[dman7777777]

Last night at my job I had to restart a couple of programs. They are actually scripts (.bat files) on a Windows 2000 Server Box. The way I was trained is that you stop the current ones running by clicking on the X in the right corner of the Windows cmd.exe window. My manager saw me do this and got extremely angry at me. He said you never stop a script like that, instead you control C out of it. I'm not a Windows expert. My manager said there's a chance it could still be running, but I'm not very convinced on that. Regardless, I was just doing how I was trained(a year ago....I've been doing this a year and no harm ever has come out of it). I'm so mad I want to put in my two weeks. But anyways, is it ok to stop a script hitting the X in cmd.exe or am I supposed to control-C out of it? And does the script continue to run if I hit the X and the cmd.exe closes?

 

[itsp1965]

It depends on what the batch file is doing. Not all commands will shutdown cleanly when you just click on the X to close a window. The Ctrl-C will actually issue a break in the processing of the batch file which will allow you to exit it or continue processing it.

 

[GrimR]

upset him more kill all cmd.exe's

' Killer.VBS
' This script kills all processes with name cmd.exe

strComputer = "."
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _
   & "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")
Set colProcessList = objWMIService.ExecQuery _
   ("SELECT * FROM Win32_Process WHERE Name = 'cmd.exe'")
For Each objProcess in colProcessList
   objProcess.Terminate()
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