Set timer in VBS

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I want to modify the script to launch the calculator app for 2 minutes then close it. The script can launch the app only. Please help.

    Set colMonitoredEvents = GetObject("winmgmts:")._
    ExecNotificationQuery("SELECT * FROM Win32_PowerManagementEvent")
    Do
    Set strLatestEvent = colMonitoredEvents.NextEvent
    If strLatestEvent.EventType = 4 Then 
    Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\.\root\cimv2")
    Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * From Win32_Process")
    For Each objItem in colItems
    If objItem.name = "Calculator.exe" then objItem.terminate
    Next
    ElseIf strLatestEvent.EventType = 7 Then 
    Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
    WshShell.Run "calc.exe", 1, false
    End If
    Loop

I want to modify it to launch and close the calculator.exe.

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1 Answers

This is accomplished simply with Sleep and TaskKill. Note that, starting probably with Windows 8, the calculator is a UWP app and Calc.exe is used to launch it, but Calculator.exe is the process name to kill it. On Windows 7, it would be Calc.exe for both.

Set oWSH = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")
oWSH.Run "Calc.exe", 1, False
WScript.Sleep 120000 'two minutes
oWSH.Run "TaskKill /im Calculator.exe /f", 0, False

If you want to retain the capability of the original script, which kills calculator when the computer goes to sleep and restarts it on wake, and add a two minute delay before the kill, that would be done like this:

Set oWSH = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")
Set colMonitoredEvents = GetObject("winmgmts:").ExecNotificationQuery("SELECT * FROM Win32_PowerManagementEvent")
Do
  Set strLatestEvent = colMonitoredEvents.NextEvent
  If strLatestEvent.EventType = 4 Then
    WScript.Sleep 120000 'two minutes
    oWSH.Run "TaskKill /im Calculator.exe /f", 0, False
  ElseIf strLatestEvent.EventType = 7 Then 
    oWSH.Run "calc.exe", 1, False
  End If
  WScript.Sleep 500
Loop

Note that I added a .5 second delay in the loop to prevent unnecessary CPU load.

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