batchfile taskkill /IM cmd.exe not closing cmd.exe

Question

I have a batch file which moves a few files and starts a program and for some reason, after the batch file goes through all the commands in it, it doesn\'t close. The comman

Answer 1

You need to "run as admin" to properly call taskkill

Answer 2

i dont know what u trying to do... but if u wanna exit/close those batch file just used

:Exit
exit

if you wanna force close other's application try this commands

:Exit 
Taskkill /IM cmd.exe /f /t

Example: ( This just for education purpose only. )

@echo off`
. Press continue if you wanna close explorer.exe.
pause
Taskkill /IM explorer.exe /f /t

the function will kill task for explorer.exe

Answer 3

Try start "" "C:\folder1\application1" in both places and remove the taskkill command (or replace it with exit/b if you need to). The extra double quotes are necessary here.

Answer 4

I recommend using:

:exit
exit

or calling another file which has:

exit /b which will terminate cmd.exe instead of just the script if it were in the same file.

i think "exit" will should work fine anyway.

Answer 5

You can try:

@echo off
taskkill /f /im cmd.exe
:exit