.bat Scripting Help

DragonMech

A few months ago, I was given an MX1000 mouse as a gift. It's really nice, but I want to use one set of key mappings for games, and another set of keymaps for applications like websurfing. Each of these key maps is stored in .xml files, and to swap between the two 'profiles' I've made some .bat scripts. However, I don't know some of the .bat commands I need.


What I want the scripts to do is:

1) Stop the process/program Setpoint.exe

2) Copy the neccesary files (I know how to do this step)

3) Run setpoint.exe.


Does anyone know what commands I should use?


Much <3,
-DM

DiscoZombie

I don't know the first step - or whether it's even possible to stop a process from a .bat file...

I know the second step, but you say you do too.

and the third step is, I believe, just the file name (C:\whereveritis\setpoint.exe)

Breakthrough

<a href='http://forums.techguy.org/showthread.php?t=371425' target='_blank'>hhttp://forums.techguy.org/showthread.php?t=371425</a>

And DiscoZombie is right for the 3rd step.

Edit: So to close it, you'd have to do this:
<!--c1--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>CODE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='CODE'><!--ec1-->TASKKILL /F /IM setpoint.exe<!--c2--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--ec2-->

This is assuming that you have Windows XP Pro... Although there's a link in the post that I linked to that has the tools you need for XP Home, 2000, and NT (not sure if it works on 98).

DragonMech

Thanks for your help! I have XP Pro, so I can use the TASKKILL command. However, I still can't get it to run setpoint.exe. I've checked the path names, and they are accurate - maybe I need to add some kind of "run" command to that line of code?

Cyndane

I know this isn't helping, but Dragon you have broke my nerd meter... TWICE.

DragonMech

<!--QuoteBegin-Cyndane+Jul 20 2005, 08:13 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Cyndane @ Jul 20 2005, 08:13 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I know this isn't helping, but Dragon you have broke my nerd meter... TWICE. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
YUS!! <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> \o/

*Does happy d0nce!*

[EDIT] I R B0RKED THE NERD METER!

[EDIT2] Sorry for the previous ouburst - attention from a female overloads my neural core. >_>

DragonMech

Ahh - I needed to add quotes around the "c:\logitech\setpoint.exe" command line for it to work. I'm good to go, so mucho thanks for the help guys!

<3!

[EDIT] No it didn't... wierd. It worked a second ago... -_-

Clashen

or you can use Logigamer to switch between settings for diffrent games.

DragonMech

Ok, my .bat files are working now; what caused me to think they weren't working was that the setpoint icon sometimes failed to show up in the taskbar. However they do work, and may everyone who helped (and Cyndane) be showered with many cookies.

Injury

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