Close all program except these with CMD

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hi guys
i have this code :
This is a batch file code

PHP

@echo off
title Kill all running apps - Bharat Balegere - AgniPulse.com
cd c:\windows\System32
for /f "skip=3 tokens=1" %%i in ('TASKLIST /FI "USERNAME eq %userdomain%\%username%" /FI "STATUS eq running"') do (
if not "%%i"=="svchost.exe" (
if not "%%i"=="explorer.exe" (
if not "%%i"=="cmd.exe" (
if not "%%i"=="tasklist.exe" (
echo.
taskkill /f /im "%%i" 
echo.
)
)
)
)
)
pause

but it will close all of the program

What I have tried:

i try to edit it and add something like this

if not "%%i"=="notepad.exe" (

but its not working anyway and when i click on batch file its nothing so i don't know how to edit this and put some except on it! thanks in advance

Posted 6-Sep-17 11:32am

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Updated 6-Sep-17 20:52pm

Richard MacCutchan

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Richard MacCutchan 7-Sep-17 2:36am

Add some echo commands to see exactly what is happening when you run it.

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Hackoo · Answer 1 · 2017-09-07T12:24:00

Solution 3

Check this answer here on stackoverflow
batch file - Close All Program Except these with CMD - Stack Overflow[^]

Posted 7-Sep-17 12:24pm

Hackoo

Updated 7-Sep-17 15:17pm

Graeme_Grant · Answer 2 · 2017-09-06T20:46:00

Solution 1

Must it be a batch file? Powershell[^] does this very easily... How to close all windows with PowerShell - Stack Overflow[^]

Posted 6-Sep-17 20:46pm

Graeme_Grant

OriginalGriff · Answer 3 · 2017-09-06T20:52:00

If I change this:

echo.
taskkill /f /im "%%i" 
echo.

To this:

echo "%%i"

Then I get this:

D:\Test Data>listtask
"sihost.exe"
"taskhostw.exe"
"Pen_TabletUser.exe"
"Pen_TouchUser.exe"
"avpui.exe"
"ShellExperienceHost.exe"
"SearchUI.exe"
"RuntimeBroker.exe"
"TabTip.exe"
"SettingSyncHost.exe"
"nvtray.exe"
"NvBackend.exe"
"MSASCuiL.exe"
"RAVCpl64.exe"
"CorelCreatorClient.exe"
"SetPoint.exe"
"KHALMNPR.exe"
"OneDrive.exe"
"chrome.exe"
"chrome.exe"
"chrome.exe"
"chrome.exe"
"E_IATIGJE.EXE"
"ProductUpdater.exe"
"WzPreloader.exe"
"LWS.exe"
"GalaxyClient.exe"
"GalaxyClient"
"GOG"
"jucheck.exe"
"CodeprojectReputation.exe"
"wlmail.exe"
"wlcomm.exe"
"PSPad.exe"
"conhost.exe"
Press any key to continue . . .

D:\Test Data>

Which would indicate that the batch file works just fine, except in your case for terminating tasks - for obvious reasons I'm not going to try that on my computer!
Trying the command itself by adding

)
taskkill /f /im "pspad.exe"
pause

To the end kills the task perfectly happily.

So I'd suspect that it's a permissions problem.
Try the same thing I did, and echo all the running tasks. Then manually kill the first one. See if it works. But ... there are a lot of tasks in my list that would probably make my computer a little unstable if killed - and yours is likely the same.
Why are you trying to do this?