Create Restart Program Batch Script

I found the need to restart a program this week while playing around with a new setup, multiple computers and multiple monitors. I tried to use a program called mouse ShareMouse… and it worked great. However the free version causes you to buy or restart the program every 30 min or so to use the ‘pro’ features. That’s when I thought to just create a restart program script just to see if it would work. 

I decided to use batch to script the restart for ShareMouse. I would need to use a loop, timeout, taskkill and start. First I stopped the service when the script started to ensure the loop didn’t fail if the program was already running. 

@echo off
title SharedMouse Restart Script

taskkill /F /IM ShareMouse.exe

Then you enter the loop. I start the program, wait an amount of time less than the program pro version timeout and stop ShareMouse. 

:loop
echo Starting Application
start "" "C:\Program Files (x86)\ShareMouse\ShareMouse.exe"
timeout /t 300
echo Stopping Application
taskkill /F /IM ShareMouse.exe
goto loop

I ran this script on every computer with ShareMouse and it worked fine. I went all day without hiccup. Just thought I’d share this simple restart program script. 

If you want to get ShareMouse you can find it here. 

Check out my last scripting post here.

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