What Command line command would close firewall settings window or administrative tools window and taskbar icons

Question

The following is nothing to do with where the mouse is when the command is issued, as that should be irrelevant. As the command specifies what to close.

I would like to have a command that will close particular windows.

For example.

For the command prompt, no problem, I know. taskkill /f /im cmd.exe windows For charmap.exe ditto.

Now for closing the windows of another taskbar icon, from the command line..i've provided a screenshot of the windows i'd like to close.

Is there a command that would do it?

Any time I see those there, so maybe a unique hex id would only work that one time, and if it were window titles that's ok and better but not ideal because really I want to close windows associated with particular taskbar icons.

Answer 1

You can't.

These windows are displayed by Windows Explorer (explorer.exe), which is one process in charge of displaying the desktop, the taskbar and Start menu, folder windows, and other windows implemented as Shell folders (like the ones you're interested in). To close them, you'll need to manipulate Scriptable Shell Objects with some vbScript/PowerShell scripts.

Note that you can close cmd.exe or charmap.exe windows using Taskkill only because these windows belong to separate processes (cmd.exe and charmap.exe).