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I have a batch file which uses taskkill to stop several services. The commands look like this:
taskkill /s \\myServer /f /fi "Services eq MyService"
The problem is that each command takes a really long time (around 1 minute). Since there are several such commands, the batch file is really slow.
Is there any way to speed up taskkill?
If the "slowness" only happens in Excel, I would probably look closer at the XML file and make sure the interpreter in Excel isn't having trouble parsing the XML. Could be malformed or having some trouble reading it. Try opening the file in other applications like Notepad etc and see if the slowness issue still exists. FWIW, XP isn't a good platform for sharing files with that many (50) users as it is limited to 10 client connections. You could be running into some contention issues with the other clients trying to read the XML file as well. I don't think your issue is the size of the file, but rather what excel is doing with the file once it opens it. But that is just my thought. Try doing a CSV file dump and opening it up in Excel and see how long that takes.
Best Answer
Try using
sc stopinstead of killing the service. It's a preferred method.http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc742107(WS.10).aspx