Question

I’m trying to write a Windows command file to open a webpage in IE, wait for it to load, then close the IE window. The following works but will kill all IE windows so any that were already open before running the .cmd will also get closed.

start iexplore.exe "page to load"
ping localhost -n 10 > nul
taskkill /IM iexplore.exe

I only want to kill the IE that was opened. I know I can just kill a particular process if I know its PID but how can find this from the command line? Is there a way to get it when starting the IE window? What I really want to do is:

start iexplore.exe "page to load"
ping localhost -n 10 > nul
taskkill /PID ?

where ? is the PID of the IE that gets opened but how can I get this? This needs to run as a .cmd file without any input from a user.

Answer 1

IE already supports automation, there is no point in finding and killing the correct process:

Set IE = CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application")
IE.visible=true
IE.navigate "http://stackoverflow.com/"
while IE.Busy
 WScript.Sleep 555
 wend
IE.Quit

Save as .vbs (And run with wscript.exe from parent program/batch file)