How to close a window that doesn't want to close?

rich333 · Post by **rich333** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 10:45 pm

I am trying to shut down Firefox with MS but it frequently seems to freeze/crash and the closewindow command isn't sufficient to shut it down. Is there a way of "killing" a window somehow?

Thanks

Bob Hansen · Post by **Bob Hansen** » Thu Jun 16, 2005 1:30 am

Check out http://www.mjtnet.com/forum/viewtopic.p ... ll+process

and/or do a Search on "kill process" (without quotes) in Macro Scheduler forum.

support · Post by **support** » Thu Jun 16, 2005 6:59 am

If CloseWindow doesn't work (the application may ignore the WM_CLOSE message coming from someone else) resort to simulating keystrokes and just have Macro Scheduler do what you do. I don't use FireFox so I'm not sure what the keystrokes are but it's probably something like ALT-fx as in most applications. In which case you do:

SetFocus>FireFox*
Press ALT
Send>fx
Release ALT

Bob Hansen · Post by **Bob Hansen** » Thu Jun 16, 2005 2:08 pm

In addition to ALT-Fx, Firefox also uses generic ALT-F4 also works.

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SetFocus>FireFox*
Press ALT
Press F4
Release ALT