This script will launch your executable and terminate it after its window will be closed. Useful for hunting down zombie processes.

riprunner.bat

@ECHO off
ECHO ++++++++++++++++++++
ECHO + riprunner 1.0 +
ECHO ++++++++++++++++++++
rem This script will launch your executable and terminate it after its window will be closed.
rem Useful for hunting down zombie processes.
rem 
rem (i) Possible start priorities: LOW, NORMAL, HIGH, REALTIME, ABOVENORMAL, BELOWNORMAL.
rem (i) Timeout between checks are set in seconds.

SET dir=C:\Program Files\Buggy App
SET exe=my_buggy_app.exe
SET priority=HIGH
SET window_title=Buggy App
SET timeout=1

rem =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

ECHO Starting "%exe%" in "%dir%" with priority %priority%
START "" /D "%dir%" /%priority% "%exe%"

:CHECK_WINDOW
FOR /F "tokens=* USEBACKQ" %%F IN (`TASKLIST /FI "WINDOWTITLE EQ %window_title%" ^| FIND /C "exe"`) DO (
SET window_count=%%F
)

IF "%window_count%"=="0" (
TASKKILL /F /IM %exe%
ECHO I'm outta here!
) ELSE (
GOTO CHECK_WINDOW
TIMEOUT /T %timeout% /NOBREAK > NUL
)