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On Sat, 6/7/2025 11:21 PM, Andy Burns wrote:
> Paul wrote:
> 
>> Carlos E.R. wrote:
>>>> Alan K. wrote:
>>>
>>>> You could maybe go as far as killing TB as part of that batch file?
>>>>       taskkill /IM "thunderbird.exe" /F
>>>
>>> Careful. He could be composing an email and it be destroyed.
>>
>> Yes.
>> Don't use the /F unless there is a way of determining draft windows
>> are not open.
>>
> 
> untested suggestion ...
> 
>     taskkill /IM "thunderbird.exe" /F /FI "WINDOWTITLE ne Write:*"
> 
> translate "Write:*" according to language
> 

That's a good catch. I didn't check for Window filters.

I've got a 128.11 ESR on the other machine, and it
has two Thunderbird processes. One is unadorned
(the parent). The second is a ContentProc, presumably
for an HTML:JS purpose. (When Firefox runs, it has
more flavours of these things. Sysinternals Process Explorer,
holding your mouse over a process, shows the arguments.)

If I test this:

   TASKKILL /IM msedge.exe

that seems to attempt to kill the five msedge.exe processes
in some random order. Things like contentProc in a case like
that, are re-forked, so the house of cards rebuilds itself.
To kill MSEdge cleanly, you can use Sysinternals Process Explorer
to identify the parent, and taking a whack at that usually works.

In the case of Thunderbird, which process will it attack first,
and which process would "own" the "Write:*" window ?

I would almost have to back up the profile and start hammering
at it, to see if a useful pattern emerges :-)

   Paul

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