How can I make a bat file stop working after 15 min

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How can I make a bat file stop working after it has been clicked so after 15 min it doesn't work forever?

Is this possible?

Posted 29-Nov-13 12:56pm

Braydon

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Maciej Los 29-Nov-13 18:58pm

What that bat does? (code, please).

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 29-Nov-13 19:27pm

It should not matter, only see my comment below.
As to the answers: please pay attention: I think we have a winner (Solution 1).
—SA

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 29-Nov-13 19:25pm

Why? It would be much better to create a batch which do all the work and terminates itself on proper condition, or develop some "real" application...
—SA

Maciej Los 30-Nov-13 11:45am

Agree!

Braydon 4-Dec-13 0:17am

This is for a key logger for my employees I want to see what they type in 5 min so that is why I developed this.

Anyway I make all sorts of stuff VB apps, Web Apps, Computer OS's (WORKING ON IT), ECT.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 4-Dec-13 1:29am

Dirty business. You cannot have people interested in work and want to spy on them. I never heard that it ever helped anyone...
—SA

Braydon 4-Dec-13 1:37am

You don´t understand if you worked for me you would.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 4-Dec-13 1:39am

Me? You must be joking. I cannot imagine that you could possibly explain it.
—SA

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ExcelledProducts CEO · Accepted Answer · 2013-11-29T12:59:00

Solution 1

@echo off
:loop
start yourtarget.exe ...
timeout /t 1200 >null
taskkill /f /im yourtarget.exe >nul
goto loop

This will restart your program every 20 minutes.

I think I will elaborate on what it does and how you can edit it.
The key part is the "timeout" function witch is standard EXE in system32. The 1200 is the seconds. By changing that it will change the amount of seconds to wait before killing the process and starting it back up again.

Posted 29-Nov-13 12:59pm

ExcelledProducts CEO

Updated 29-Nov-13 14:16pm

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 29-Nov-13 19:24pm

Very good, a 5... :-)
—SA

[no name] 29-Nov-13 20:03pm

thanks

Maciej Los 30-Nov-13 11:44am

As Sergey had mentioned: You're a winner!
+5!

Braydon 4-Dec-13 0:18am

Thanks