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Code to categorically end PushBullet Background Processes in Task Manager.

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by sebastian42 1 view

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My routine for automatically opening PushBullet on Windows boot is unreliable. When it does not work, the thrice repeated <> does NOT succeed in ending all three Background Process entries in Task Manager. If I manually end the remaining one(s), then PushBullet will launch satisfactorily. So I need code for a technique that will definitely end ALL the Pushbullet Background Process entries in Task Manager. Can you help with that ?

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by sebastian42

Googling WMIC gave me a non-useful result, but when I opened the stackoverflow URL, I saw WMIC referenced there - amongst many other suggestions. It will take time for me to work my way through them.

by rproffitt

The problem is there is no God mode task killer method I know of save the power switch. This means I sometimes have to work down the list of pskill, taskkill and wmic.

by sebastian42

Preliminary results suggest that adding '/t' to the kill code may have solved my problem.

by sebastian42

Sad to say, Background Processes in Task Manager are NOT being categorically ended by killing child processes. Work-in-progress ...

by sebastian42

You have taken me by surprise 3 times in one post; 1. correct name; 2. warm killing & 3. cold killing

You're suggesting I should use pushbullet_client instead of pushbullet ?

'COLD' = switch power off ?
'WARM' = use some keystroke ?

by rproffitt

I'm not on your PC so I can't check the task list. But I would try what they noted as well as trying a kill by PID. Of course an elevated command prompt is required.

by sebastian42

Adding '_client' seemed to make the right difference. Time will tell whether the improvement persists. It didn't. I've delayed the start of the batch file - that also improves results, but again remains to be seen if improvement petrsists,

by sebastian42

It seemed to work, but alas today, PushBullet did not launch, and when I looked at Background Processes in Task Manager, there were two PushBullets there. However, manually running the batch file, instead of letting it happen at StartUp, did end the background processes, and allow launching. Maybe a longer delay before it starts, is the requirement.

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