Windows 10: Batch File Hangs. How Can I Effectively End It?

My machine is on v1909 (OS Build 18363.535).

I run a batch file each night to close my Outlook process in preparation for nightly backup. It is, in fact, a batch file located here: Closing Outlook via a (scheduled) script - HowTo-Outlook. The specific script I am running is closeoutlookfailsafe.vbs, and I execute it as a cscript out of the batch file.

It does execute what it is supposed to do, which is closing down Outlook, but then the CMD window hangs open and, within Task Scheduler, the process status maintains as "Running" indefinitely, until the machine shuts down after executing the backup process.

I've been looking around for a way to gracefully end the batch process in such a way that the CMD window closes and the status resets to "Ready", but I am coming up dry. To be clear, the exact language in the batch file is:

cscript.exe "C:\Users\[name]\Documents\Outlook Files\Close Outlook Scheduled Task Files\CloseOutlookFailsafe.vbs"

Does anyone have any feel as to whether I can accomplish what I am looking to do here?

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Batch Files Knowledge Base

Don't use batch files very much but one I find useful is for creating a list of files in a directory.
Just copy the text below into Notepad and save as Filelist.bat

dir /a /-p /o:gen >filelist.txt

When you run it from a folder it will create a Filelist.txt file,in the same folder, that lists all the files in that folder.Useful when you are too lazy to type all the files out yourself.

 

Batch Files Knowledge Base

Very nice and usefull thanks for contributing.

 

Batch file to ping network

No, batch files are extremely easy.

A "If" requires three extra steps.

Code is not how much you can put in, but how lite can you make it and still perform the functions.

So

@ echo off


ping 1.4.1.4 >a.txt

findstr /m "Request timed out" a.txt
if %errorlevel%%==0 (
echo Save our nets!!!
)

pause