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Hello,

I have 50 computers that have Virtual PC 2007 (VPC) installed. I need to upgrade VPC to SP1. When I begin the upgrade, I get a little warning like this:



I usually work around the error by starting Task Manager, killing explorer.exe, then click the retry button in the above image and the installation completes. Then, I have to open Task Manager again, then restart explorer.exe.

Obviously the kill/start process of explorer.exe will get quite tedious when upgrading VPC on these computers.

I'm working on a batch script that will kill explorer.exe. Then, I would like there to be a 10 second pause so I can finish the installation of VPC, then the script will automatically restart explorer.exe.

Unfortunately I'm not much of a scripter so I'm getting stuck at the time delay and restarting explorer.

For killing the task I'm thinking of using the simple taskkill /f /im "explorer.exe"

For restarting the task can I just use the simple "start explorer.exe" command?

I don't really need a scripting marvel, just something to the point that works. If someone can help me through a little script together, that would be great. Thanks so much for the help.

Hmm, you have TASKKILL and START. What's missing, the 10s delay?


Regards
aGerman

Thanks for the reply!

Yes, I'm missing the 10s delay.

Well then why don't you merge yours and mine to batch code

Otherwise you could call your upgrade instead of PING. Is it an exe file? Where is it saved?

Regards
aGerman

Sorry, my second reply to this thread wasn't complete and I forgot to come back and update it.

Thanks for the


That was exactly what I needed. I combined the command with taskkill and start and it's running perfectly.

I'm simply saving it as a .bat.

Thanks so much for the help. I really appreciate it.