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How to set a timeout for a process under Windows 7?

I would like to start a program with a Windows batch file. But the program should stop after a certain timeout value. For example: Run the program 60 seconds and stop it after 60 seconds.

Under Linux, there is this nice timeout command to do what I want. Windows has also a timeout command, but it's just to pause a command, to delay it's execution. Is there something else under Windows to do so?

Setup: Windows 7, 64 Bit, Professional

Solution 
  • start yourprogram.exe
timeout /t 60
taskkill /im yourprogram.exe /f