[AccessD] How to shut down Access

Hi John:

Question; if the application automatically runs report and imports through
out the evening, when this maintenance has been completed it can also check
the time and if past a certain time then it closes itself down? It would
just be a batch process.

You can also use the internal AT command set on in window?
http://tinyurl.com/ymwk85

I use this all the time to start overnight backups at various sites. It is
built in to all Windows computers. (Windows has a GUI for the AT command
called the schedular...but there is a small bug in the schedular interface.)

Jim 

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby
Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 8:57 AM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] How to shut down Access

I hear ya.  However this is an app which runs reports, does imports etc.
The things it does is 
scheduled by records in a table.  I guess I could just put something in that
table that shuts it 
down at a specific time.

John W. Colby
Colby Consulting

Reality is what refuses to go away
when you do not believe in it

On 1/27/2012 9:03 AM, Jim Dettman wrote:
>
>   You might also want to go this route:
>
> How to detect User Idle Time or Inactivity in Access 2000
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/210297
>
>   or a combination of the two methods.
>
>    But whatever you do, the app should close itself rather then being
killed
> from the outside, or you risk database corruption (unless of course it's a
> SQL server backend, then kill away).
>
> Jim.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby
> Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 08:06 AM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: [AccessD] How to shut down Access
>
> The client wants to shut down Access for doing a backup.  The backup kicks
> off in the middle of the
> night and they need a way to terminate the access application.  I do not
> have anything built in to
> my stuff to do this.
>
> Does anyone know a way to directly get a pointer to any open access
> instances and force them to close?

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