"John Larkin" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com...
Then the Scheduled task manager could be used to kill the webcam software and restart it. Use 'taskkill' and write your self a batch file.
Cheers
TASKKILL [/S system [/U username [/P [password]]]] { [/FI filter] [/PID processid | /IM imagename] } [/F] [/T]
Description: This command line tool can be used to end one or more processes. Processes can be killed by the process id or image name.
Parameter List: /S system Specifies the remote system to connect to.
/U [domain\]user Specifies the user context under which the command should execute.
/P [password] Specifies the password for the given user context. Prompts for input if omitted.
/F Specifies to forcefully terminate process(es).
/FI filter Displays a set of tasks that match a given criteria specified by the filter.
/PID process id Specifies the PID of the process that has to be terminated.
/IM image name Specifies the image name of the process that has to be terminated. Wildcard '*' can be used to specify all image names.
/T Tree kill: terminates the specified process and any child processes which were started by it.
/? Displays this help/usage.
Filters: Filter Name Valid Operators Valid Value(s) ----------- --------------- -------------- STATUS eq, ne RUNNING | NOT RESPONDING IMAGENAME eq, ne Image name PID eq, ne, gt, lt, ge, le PID value SESSION eq, ne, gt, lt, ge, le Session number. CPUTIME eq, ne, gt, lt, ge, le CPU time in the format of hh:mm:ss. hh - hours, mm - minutes, ss - seconds MEMUSAGE eq, ne, gt, lt, ge, le Memory usage in KB USERNAME eq, ne User name in [domain\]user format MODULES eq, ne DLL name SERVICES eq, ne Service name WINDOWTITLE eq, ne Window title
NOTE: Wildcard '*' for the /IM switch is accepted only with filters.
NOTE: Termination of remote processes will always be done forcefully irrespective of whether /F option is specified or not.
Examples: TASKKILL /S system /F /IM notepad.exe /T TASKKILL /PID 1230 /PID 1241 /PID 1253 /T TASKKILL /F /IM notepad.exe /IM mspaint.exe TASKKILL /F /FI "PID ge 1000" /FI "WINDOWTITLE ne untitle*" TASKKILL /F /FI "USERNAME eq NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM" /IM notepad.exe TASKKILL /S system /U domain\username /FI "USERNAME ne NT*" /IM * TASKKILL /S system /U username /P password /FI "IMAGENAME eq note*"