I want to turn on and off some backup programs to be automatically turned on and off at a set time instead of running in the background all the time and consuming memory.
I know how to start any program using Windows Task Scheduler, but unable to find how to turn off the same program using it.
Is there any way of doing it?
I would really appreciate any help.
Thank you!
Just found this:
A batch file to kill a process
or do you mean something else, without using the batch file?
You can write/use a batch script to run that backup programs of yours and terminate after completion. You can then schedule this batch script to run at a time of your choice via task scheduler.
Open a command prompt and type taskkill /? and press enter to see how to use the options for the command. You can either use it in a batch file that's called from the task, or use the command itself in the task. Then you need to figure out how you want to trigger the task.
Thanks for the replies!
Got it working! :)
Glad to hear it! Can you post again to allow others to know how you got it accomplished?
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