i wish to create a batch file, which will then be sent to others. the overall plan is launch batch file launch ie go to web page wait 10 close ie luanch ie go to webpage wait 10 close ie batch ends

Not sure how to close proccesses in command not sure if it's even possible. So here is what you want done in two files the first a .bat and the second a .vbs . .bat file ------ @echo off cls start www.google.com ping -n 1 -w 5000 1.1>nul start close.vbs start www.google.com ping -n 1 -w 5000 1.1>nul start close.vbs ----- .vbs file call this close.vbs ---- strComputer = "." Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _ & "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2") Set colProcessList = objWMIService.ExecQuery _ ("Select * from Win32_Process Where Name = 'iexplore.exe'") For Each objProcess in colProcessList objProcess.Terminate() Next -------------- Make sure these are both on the same folder. Also this will not work if there default browser is anything other than ie. Grusomhat

i've seen the taskkill command this works on some machines but not others, but the task kill command could be used

Ok just a simple bat file this time. I had never heard of task kill but thankyou for pointing it out. -------------------------- @echo off cls start www.google.com ping -n 1 -w 5000 1.1>nul taskill /pid iexplore.exe start www.google.com ping -n 1 -w 5000 1.1>nul taskkill /pid iexplore Try that. Grusomhat

Ok there was a spelling mistake in my last post here it is without the error. This will still however only work if the default browser is ie. start www.google.com ping -n 1 -w 10000 1.1>nul taskkill /pid iexplore.exe start www.google.com ping -n 1 -w 10000 1.1>nul taskkill /pid iexplore.exe if you wanted it to work with firefox i guess you could have this -------------------------- start www.google.com ping -n 1 -w 10000 1.1>nul taskkill /pid iexplore.exe taskkill /pid firefox.exe start www.google.com ping -n 1 -w 10000 1.1>nul taskkill /pid iexplore taskkill /pid firefox.exe --------------------------- Grusomhat

the one with vb code works great, cheers taskkill isnt installed by default on all machines so i'll go with the vb one, cheers

Awesome glad i could help. Grusomhat