topic RE: How to kill all chrome instances in Product Forum

How to kill all chrome instances

EstebanMontesi1 — Sun, 11 Oct 2020 01:46:00 GMT

Is there any way to kill all instances of chrome open?

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Esteban Montesinos
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RE: How to kill all chrome instances

james.man — Mon, 12 Oct 2020 01:04:00 GMT

You will probably need to use either code stages or batch files (tasklist + taskkill command?) to do this.

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James Man
Professional Services
Blue Prism
Asia/Hong_Kong
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RE: How to kill all chrome instances

EstebanMontesi1 — Mon, 12 Oct 2020 04:33:00 GMT

What code will be needed on the code stage?

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Esteban Montesinos
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RE: How to kill all chrome instances

vivek.kumar.goel — Mon, 12 Oct 2020 05:15:00 GMT

Simple use "Utility -Environment" --> Kill process with "chrome" as input.

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Vivek Goel
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RE: How to kill all chrome instances

NileshJadhavBP — Mon, 12 Oct 2020 21:24:00 GMT

Hi,

You can achieve this using below method.

1.using navigate stage - select root element in navigate stage and select terminate from drop down action.
2.using action stage - select utility Environment vbo and select action kill process ( Parameter will be "Chrome")

I hope it will help.

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Nilesh Jadhav
Senior RPA Specialist
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RE: How to kill all chrome instances

SimanchalaPatt1 — Tue, 08 Nov 2022 18:36:00 GMT

Hi Vivek,

It's not working for me. Can you please suggest, where I might be wrong. Thank you.

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Simanchala Pattanayak
Lead Solution Advisor
Deloitte USI
Bangalore
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RE: How to kill all chrome instances

MichaelAnnis1 — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 15:31:00 GMT

Can you please share a screenshot of your "kill process" properties?

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Michael Annis
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RE: How to kill all chrome instances

SimanchalaPatt1 — Thu, 10 Nov 2022 17:33:00 GMT

Hello Annis,

Sorry, can't share the screenshots due to security concern. Let me brief the issue bit more.
We can able to close the Chrome instance in our PROD environment, but in DEV the Kill Process is not working. It's not throwing any error, it's just crossing the stage without closing the Chrome.

FYI:
BP Version: 6.10.4
Chrome 107
Chrome Extension: 6.10.4

Kindly advise.

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Simanchala Pattanayak
Lead Solution Advisor
Deloitte USI
Bangalore
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RE: How to kill all chrome instances

MichaelAnnis1 — Thu, 10 Nov 2022 20:32:00 GMT

You could try via command line:

taskkill /IM chrome.exe /F

Good luck!

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Michael Annis
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RE: How to kill all chrome instances

sumire — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 05:06:00 GMT

Hello @SimanchalaPatta

Utility -Environment" --> Kill process uses Process.Kill.
This is description of Process.Kill Method : Process.Kill Method (System.Diagnostics) | Microsoft Learn
It says:
WaitForExit and HasExited will indicate that exiting has completed after the given process exits, even if all descendants have not yet exited.

So I made Code Stage. "ProcessName" is a input argument.

Dim p As New System.Diagnostics.Process()

p.StartInfo.FileName = System.Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("ComSpec")
p.StartInfo.Arguments = "/c taskkill /F /T /FI ""username eq %USERNAME%"" /IM " & ProcessName
p.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false
p.StartInfo.CreateNoWindow = true

p.Start()

p.WaitForExit()
p.Close()

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Mitsuko
Asia/Tokyo
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RE: How to kill all chrome instances

SimanchalaPatt1 — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 17:14:00 GMT

Hi Annis,

Blue Prism is getting hang every time I used to run this. Please advise.

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Simanchala Pattanayak
Lead Solution Advisor
Deloitte USI
Bangalore
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RE: How to kill all chrome instances

MichaelAnnis1 — Fri, 02 Dec 2022 17:11:00 GMT

I apologize; apparently I still have a lot to learn about Blue Prism as I haven't finished my Surface Automation training. I find it incomprehensible that I can't even get a command line to work. I was trying to get it to physically open a command prompt and use a Global Send Keys to the command prompt screen to bypass whatever issue you are having, but I can't get an Application Modeller to attach to the command prompt window which I opened using the Utility - Environment VBO. The fact that I can't just use a global send keys event without an application modeller is beyond me. It should be an internal business object...it already has to have the correct window in focus to work and should just be a basic process action.

Sorry I couldn't help more.

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Michael Annis
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RE: How to kill all chrome instances

SimphiweTshezi — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 08:03:00 GMT

Hi Estaban,

In the attach objects I used multiple wild cards in the Window title to include common words (eg *https*) to attach to all instances and then Global Send Key Event
"{CTRL}{W}>{CTRL}" to close all intsances.

I hope this helps.

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Simphiwe Tshezi
Software Developer (RPA)
Altron Managed Solutions
Johannesburg
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RE: How to kill all chrome instances

rsrivastava2 — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 08:16:00 GMT

Hi Esteban,

Try using Utility Environment > Kill Process and enter "chrome.exe" in Process Name.
In my case I have modified the VBO a little and it kills the process and waits for it to end dynamically.
Here is the script -

Success = False
Dim bProcFound as Boolean = True
Dim iLoop as Integer = 0
Dim myProcesses() As System.Diagnostics.Process
Dim instance As System.Diagnostics.Process
Try
	Do While bProcFound = True AND iLoop < timeOut
		myProcesses = System.Diagnostics.Process.GetProcessesByName(Process_Name)
		for each p as System.Diagnostics.Process in myProcesses
			if iLoop = 0 OR iLoop Mod 3 = 0 then
				try
					p.CloseMainWindow()
					p.kill()
				catch ex As Exception
					Msg &= iLoop & ":" & Process_Name & " - " & ex.Message 
				end Try
			end if
		next
		bProcFound = False
		For Each instance In myProcesses
			bProcFound = True
		Next
		Threading.Thread.Sleep(200)
		iloop += 0.2
	Loop
	if iLoop >= timeOut then Msg = "Timeout" 
	if not bProcFound then Success = True
Catch
End Try

Another way to do this is using a cmd file. Create a killChrome.cmd with "taskkill /im chrome.exe /f"
Now use Utility Environment > Start Process. Use "cmd" in Application and "/c <path>\killChrome.cmd"

Hope this Helps,
Regards

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WeighyRPAMatey
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