Stop programs from running

[joe]

hi
hope you guys r enjoying weekend.

can anyone help me with a batch script to check only one application at a time

ie

notepad.exe
calc.exe
wordpad.exe
mspaint.exe

if notepad.exe is running then the other three should not run.
the same condition for the other 3.

thanks

[Compo]

Could you please try to better describe what it is you want to do instead of what you don't want to do.

Your question as I see it:
If any one of notepad.exe, calc.exe, wordpad.exe or mspaint.exe are running start none of them else start one of them.

Question raised:
If none of them are running which one of the four do you want run?

[aGerman]

You could filter the tasks using FINDSTR and count using FIND.

Code: Select all

@echo off &setlocal
for /f %%i in (
  'tasklist /nh^|findstr /lbi "notepad.exe calc.exe wordpad.exe mspaint.exe"^|find /c /v ""'
) do set "cnt=%%i"
echo %cnt% of 4 running.
pause

Note that the process name of the calculator changed on Win10. It's now calculator.exe.

Steffen

[Squashman]

Sounds like you are trying to block applications from running if some other app is running. I wouldn't recommend trying to do this with a batch file.