I have tested this. The ON SHUTDOWN launches a tiny program with a messagebox. Via the Task Manager the messagebox displays AND the option is given to kill anyway. I think that shows at least some respect. However, The Taskkill tool does not at all display the messagebox. It immediately kills vfp.
UPDATE: Ah, I just discovered that this forceful kill was caused by the /F parameter I was using. When I removed it, the behavior indeed matched the Task Manager. This solves my concern. Now I'm pretty sure this is what I'll gonna use. Thanks Craig and Agnes.
>It's the same as killing an application through task manager. Suppose you had an application that you needed to kill, you launch Task Manager, and attempt to kill it. However, the application has code (say in an ON SHUTDOWN), that keeps the application running. How would you ever kill it?
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1324282 I asked how VSS can be stopped in a batch file. I have now discovered Taskkill and PsKill. Taskkill is a tool in WinXP Pro and Vista. PsKill is a tool from SysInternals.
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>>Both have proven to me they can kill VSS and VFP. However, I also noticed that the ON SHUTDOWN routine of VFP was not respected. This gives me the feeling that it may occur that VFP may shut down in a dirty way, perhaps even 'corrupting' tables.
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>>Has anyone experience with this way of killing VFP?
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