Question

I have a rogue vbscript that went a little crazy tracing output and now I have thousands of message boxes to close. I can hold down the Enter key and close lots of them but that still takes several minutes. I could reboot but then I have to open all my apps again. Is there a quick way to auto close all the message boxes. I tried looking in task manager but it appears that the process that spawned the boxes has long sinced finished. Any ideas?

Answer 1

Not sure how you can have orphaned msgbox windows, you should still have cscript.exe or wscript.exe in your running processes list. The following should terminate the underlying process and close your msgboxes:

strComputer = "."
strProcessToKill = "wscript.exe" 

SET objWMIService = GETOBJECT("winmgmts:" _
    & "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" _ 
    & strComputer & "\root\cimv2") 

SET colProcess = objWMIService.ExecQuery _
    ("Select * from Win32_Process Where Name = '" & strProcessToKill & "'")

FOR EACH objProcess in colProcess
    objProcess.Terminate()
NEXT 

Obviously, change wscript.exe. to cscript.exe if that’s what you’re using.