[wpkg-users] Updates without taskkill?

[Dave Evans]

Hello,
> I've been using WPKG for over ten years now I think, and am very happy about it.
> I struggled with the same problems as you mentioned.  I used the taskkill approach for a (very) little while, but it is rather offensive on the user, so I created a less aggressive combo of WPKG, chocolatey and a python GUI script launched from a scheduled task (as admin, which normally has no user interaction, hence comes in RunAsRob :-)).
>
> My users have no admin rights; this setup allows them to:
> * check for new updates (manually or a few times a week by scheduled task)
> * close the applications which will be updated and then press "update"
> * run WPKG when they feel like
>
> As a nice side effect, users following this flow will not be surprised by long boot times due to WPKG/choco providing them with updates.
>
> You can find extra info on https://github.com/jupsoleil/RunAsAdmin - it can surely still be improved upon, but for me it works.
>
I made a script which I can call like this:
     <!-- fail if Thunderbird is running, will repeat up to 5 times, 
then kill it -->
     <install cmd='%COMSPEC% /c "%SOFTWARE%\..\scripts\isnotrunning.bat" 
thunderbird.exe' />

it fails with 1001, 1002 etc, if it runs 5 times, then it does a taskkill

--------------------------------------------------------------
posting at the bottom because Stefan :-)
Dave Evans