I feel like this should be easy, but I haven't figured it out yet.
I have an executable that is already running when I run my vbscript. I want to find the executable and call sendkeys to give it input.
Here is what I have so far:
dim service, Process, myObject
set service = GetObject ("winmgmts:")
for each Process in Service.InstancesOf ("Win32_Process")
if Process.Name = "abc.exe" then
myObject = Process
end if
next
myObject.SendKeys "This is a test."
This doesn't work, but I think it would look similar to this. I basically just want to sendkeys to myObject.
NOTE: I do not want to run a new instance of abc.exe, I want to send input to the one that is already running
You are trying to activate a wscript submethod(sendkeys) off of a process, this does not have a sendkeys submethod. Try the "App Activate" submethod off of the wscript shell....
Set objShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Do Until Success = True
Success = objShell.AppActivate("ABC")
Wscript.Sleep 1000
Loop
objShell.SendKeys "This is a test."
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I am running the following VBScript (check.vbs):
Set service = GetObject ("winmgmts:")
For Each Process In Service.InstancesOf("Win32_Process")
If Process.Name = "cmd.exe" Then
WScript.Echo "cmd running"
WScript.Quit
End If
Next
CreateObject("WScript.Shell").Run("C:\system\file.bat")
This script will check whether cmd.exe is running or not. If it is running, this script will display a message "cmd running". If it is not running, this script will open a batch file C:\system\file.bat.
But what I actually need is: when I run this script check.vbs it needs to keep on checking until it finds that cmd.exe is not running.
Only if it found cmd.exe is not running it needs to run file.bat - after repeated checking in background (like any loop program).
In simple words, when opening check.vbs the script need to continously check that cmd.exe is running or not, once it found it's not running, it need to open file.bat.
Still not sure if I understand the question correctly, but assuming that you actually want a monitor that watches and re-spawns a particular process you could do something like this:
Set wmi = GetObject ("winmgmts://./root/civm2")
Sub CheckProcess(name, script)
For Each p In wmi.ExecQuery("SELECT * FROM Win32_Process")
If p.Name = name Then Exit Sub
Next
CreateObject("WScript.Shell").Run script
End Sub
Do
CheckProcess "cmd.exe", "C:\system\file.bat"
WScript.Sleep 100
Loop
I'm trying to make a vb script that will restart another vb script if it crashes.
I have searched, and searched but all I get is how to restart a program and since a vb script is a background process it doesn't work when you search in Win32_Process.
Here is my code
set Service = GetObject ("winmgmts:")
set Shell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
sEXEName = "Test_To_Block.vbs"
while true
bRunning = false
for each Process in Service.InstancesOf ("Win32_Process")
if Process.Name = sEXEName then
bRunning=true
msgbox("I am active")
End If
next
if bRunning=False then
msgbox("I am not active.")
Shell.Run sEXEName
end if
WScript.Sleep(100)
wend
The problem is that it never see's the file running and just opens hundreds of "Test_To_Stop.vbs"'s which resolves in me having to restart the computer.
In my opinion what should be changed is where the code is looking for.
for each Process in Service.InstancesOf ("Win32_Process")
Instead of looking in "Win32_Process" you need to look in wherever background process' run.
I am new to coding so sorry if this is a simple question.
Thank you in advance.
Regards,
A Viper
The below code restarts itself via WshShell.Exec() method and trace state of the running script via .Status property of returned object:
If Not WScript.Arguments.Named.Exists("task") Then
Do
With CreateObject("WScript.Shell").Exec("""" & WScript.FullName & """ """ & WScript.ScriptFullName & """ ""/task""")
Do While .Status = 0
WScript.Sleep 1
Loop
End With
Loop
End If
MsgBox "This script will be restarted immediately after termination"
Another way is to use .Run() method with third parameter set to True to wait until launched process terminated:
If Not WScript.Arguments.Named.Exists("task") Then
Do
CreateObject("WScript.Shell").Run """" & WScript.FullName & """ """ & WScript.ScriptFullName & """ ""/task""", 1, True
Loop
End If
MsgBox "This script will be restarted immediately after termination"
Or even simplier:
If Not WScript.Arguments.Named.Exists("task") Then
Do
CreateObject("WScript.Shell").Run """" & WScript.ScriptFullName & """ ""/task""", 1, True
Loop
End If
MsgBox "This script will be restarted immediately after termination"
Probably because the name of the running process is 'wscript.exe' and not 'Test_To_Block.vbs'. You may be able to use the hack mentioned on this page to change the name of the process:
If you're running the scripts locally and running some regular scripts, one
common hack is just to copy and rename wscript.exe to a particular name,
such as "MyScript1.exe". Then run the script with a shortcut as
"...\MyScript1.exe MyScript1.vbs". Then the process will show up as
MyScript1.exe.
Then you can use sEXEName = "MyScript1.exe"
Note: instead of using Shell.run sExeName use Shell.run "Test_To_Block.vbs"
I have the process ID of the process for my application that is already running.
Now I want to activate that same window through this process id with VBScript.
Supposing mypid is the process ID
Set Shell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Shell.AppActivate(mypid)
This is returning false on Windows 7.
If anyone has an answer, I would like to know it.
Check this link :
WshShell.AppActivate doesn't seem to work in simple vbs script
And this is the summary of good solution there:
Set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
for i=0 to 300 'this loop will continue about 30 sec if this not enough increase this number
Rtn=WshShell.AppActivate(myPID) 'have to be the windows title of application or its process ID
If Rtn = True Then
WshShell.SendKeys "......." ' send key you like
wscript.sleep 100 ' stop execute next line until finish close app
End If
wscript.sleep 100
Next
First of all, thanks for reading.
I have a HTA to centralize some repetitive task.
Login into several servers via ssh and send multiple commands is one of them.
This code is working like a charm inside a vbs file
Option Explicit
Dim Shell, WMI, wql, process
Set Shell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Set WMI = GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\.\root\cimv2")
wql = "SELECT ProcessId FROM Win32_Process WHERE Name = 'putty.exe'"
dim cmd : cmd=InputBox("Enter command")
For Each process In WMI.ExecQuery(wql)
Shell.AppActivate process.ProcessId
Shell.SendKeys cmd & " {ENTER}"
Next
But this equivalent, inside a HTA only sends the command to one or two windows.
sub sendToPuttyWindow(cmd)
Dim Shell, WMI, wql, process
Set Shell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Set WMI = GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\.\root\cimv2")
wql = "SELECT ProcessId FROM Win32_Process WHERE Name = 'putty.exe'"
For Each process In WMI.ExecQuery(wql)
Shell.AppActivate process.ProcessId
Shell.SendKeys cmd & " {ENTER}"
Next
end sub
Currently I'm calling the vbs file from the hta, but I would like to maintain the HTA file as independent as possible.
Could you please help me?
Do not use SendKeys for automating PuTTY. It sends all emulated keystrokes to the current foreground window, whatever that may be. If you need to run several commands in a row: use plink from the PuTTY suite. It was built for this exact purpose.
plink -ssh -batch -m file user#host
I like to end a process using VBScript.
Unfortunally I only found examples in which the authors are describing how to do it killing the process.
I like to ask for closing. So objProcess.Terminate() won't help.
I'm using Windows XP SP3 with admin rights.
Any Ideas?
Thank you!
You could try the CloseMainWindow and the Close methods on the process as described on MSDN, like:
Sub KillingMeSoftly(processName)
'partly copied from http://www.activexperts.com/activmonitor/windowsmanagement/adminscripts/processes/
strComputer = "."
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _
& "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")
Set colProcessList = objWMIService.ExecQuery _
("Select * from Win32_Process Where Name = '" & processName & "'")
For Each objProcess in colProcessList
objProcess.CloseMainWindow
objProcess.Close
Next
End Sub
this was a bad answer
UPDATE
While searching for an answer, I just discovered that starting a script with the //T:nn option triggers the Terminate event on objects:
class Foo
sub class_terminate
msgbox "Gracefull termination"
' Put your own termination code here.
end sub
end class
dim bar
set bar = new Foo
do
loop ' makes the script run forever
Save this as c:\endless.vbs
Running this script will never trigger the termination event because it will hang in the endless loop, but if you start the script with a timeout it will; Start the script from the command prompt:
C:\>wscript endless.vbs //T:5
You'll see that after 5 seconds a messagebox with "Gracefull termination" appears.
This is usefull when you want to quit a script after a certain amount of time and run a cleanup if it was not ended by itself. I do not know if this covers the solution you are searching for.
So, finally I found a solution for my problem, but is not solved using VBS.
There is a program written to send a CTRL-BREAK to any process called "SendSignal". I had tried this before, but all my process was responding had been an error-message and it kept running.
I changed this program sending CTRL+C. After this I was able to shut my Javaw process gently.
Thanks to all, for your help!