Windows 10: What are Tasklist and Taskkill commands in Windows 10

Sometimes we get into a situation where the Windows Task Manager is not accessible for some reason, or the administrator has disabled it. At that […]

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TASKLIST command LIES!

I have two Windows 10 PCs connected to a NAS via 1Gps Ethernet and run applications such as Thunderbird, Lightroom, Quicken, and others that lock shared network files on the NAS when in use. On sleep, switch user, or lock screen,
I wish to gracefully stop these apps if running to release the locks. I've not found a reliable way to do this. After trying to use the Windows Event Scheduler, LockandLoad, or Power Triggers to kill tasks when sleep/switch/lock events are detected, I've
concluded this approach is futile: if a task doesn't clean up quickly enough after receiving a TASKKILL notification, it will be suspended with the shared files left in an unusable state.

So to avoid this race condition, I wrote a batch script (below) that runs TASKKILL to end a list of applications, then loops running a TASKLIST command until the killed tasks are no longer listed, then runs a sleep/switch/lock command.
I disabled the standard sleep and lock start menu items (haven't found a way to disable switch user), and created shortcuts to this script with appropriate arguments.

It STILL does not work reliably. The only explanation I can think of is that the TASKLIST command must not be returning accurate info.

What to do?

@Echo off

rem Kill tasks that lock shared files, then sleep, switch user, or lock session

rem Usage:

rem powersafe {sleep|switch|lock} task1 task2 ...

rem

rem Installation:

rem Copy powersafe.bat to C:\Program Files\PowerSafe

rem Copy sleep.lnk, switch.lnk, lock.lnk to:

rem C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\PowerSafe

rem Download and install tsdiscon.exe in %SystemRoot%\System32 if necessary.

if [%1]==[] (

echo Usage: powersafe {sleep^|switch^|lock} task1 task2 ...

exit /b 1

)

setlocal EnableExtensions

set tasklist=

:KILLTASKS

if [%2]==[] goto KILLDONE

taskkill /fi "USERNAME eq %USERNAME%" /im %2

if errorlevel 0 set tasklist=%tasklist% %2

shift /2

goto KILLTASKS

:KILLDONE

for /f "tokens=4 delims= " %%G in ('tasklist /fi "IMAGENAME eq tasklist.exe" /nh') do SET id=%%G

:WAIT

tasklist /nh /fi "Session eq %id%" | findstr /i "%tasklist%"

if errorlevel 1 (

goto SLEEP

)

timeout /t 1 /nobreak

goto WAIT

:SLEEP

echo %1

if /i %1==sleep (

Rundll32.exe Powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState Sleep

) else if /i %1==switch (

%SystemRoot%\System32\tsdiscon.exe

) else if /i %1==lock (

rem Does NOT lock! -- same as tsdiscon.exe

rundll32.exe user32.dll,LockWorkStation

)

 

Tasklist problem. Please help.

I tried the following steps to get a list of the processes running on my computer. I actually found it on the Microsoft Windows support website.

"use the command line command tasklist. For example, in

Start >Run, type

tasklist /FO CSV>C:\tasklist.csv [click OK]

This will produced an Excel spreadsheet of the Task Manager information"

It seems to run fine, but I have absolutely no idea as to WHERE the list goes to? I cannot find it!

If someone can help me out on this it would be greatly appreciated, or if someone knows a more simple way to get a list of the processes running on my computer, please let me know.

In the mean time, I will keep pulling the last few hairs out of my head.

Yok3233

 

GPU-Z what command line parameter ?

Suggestion: /? (-?) and /help (-help) command-line arguments to show a list of all possible arguments in a small window. *Smile