Schedule to properly exit a program at 5pm

[ktobiano]

I work in the company QuickBooks file throughout the day and before I leave I need to close out of the program.  There are several reasons why I may not make it back to my desk to do this at the end of my day so the program stays open and updates can't happen.  Then I get yelled at.  I'm trying to find a way to automatically close just QuickBooks at a specific time every day.

Please help! 

[Salmon Trout]

With issues of this type, I feel that a strictly technical, whip-up-a-script approach is not always the best. At my job I have to shut down my PC at the end of the day. (They have recently introduced a thing called "Night Watchman" which shuts down all the workstations on the network at 7 PM unless you tell the IT people you need to be excluded, and since our site building closes at that time, we will never need to do that). I have to make time to shut down all my running apps and shut down the PC. That is part of the time management I am expected to do. Maybe you need to speak to your boss, or whoever it is that "yells" at you, and mention that shutting down Quickbooks at the end of the day is part of your work, and that other things are making this difficult or impossible. Does your employer allow you to leave a PC on all night?

[patio]

 If i was getting yelled at for not shutting down properly at the end of the day i'd make it a point to do that before i left work...
There are ways to automate this but you should really be doing what they are paying you for...no excuses.

[ktobiano]

Finding a way to auto shut down (we can auto start why not auto exit?) is what I need.  This is not about work protocol.  I worked that route to death.  I just need to know how to get the program to shut down at night if I can't get back to my office to do it. When I say can't get back to the office it literally means I'm at a jobsite far far away.  The accountant yells.  I've given her my password but she usually forgets to do it.  I'm not "in trouble" but I don't like being the source of frustration for her.  I can do that all on my own without any help lol!

(Comp is password protected & IT dept requires we leave our comps on all night.)

Any freewares that will do assist?

The ones I found were crap.

I just saw the second post.  Mind your own business.  I'm working jobsites in the field doing exactly what the *censored* I'm getting paid for so stuff it.  Don't judge unless you have ALL the flipping details.  I'm not posting my whole freaking story on this *censored* board.  If you can't answer the question don't bother posting.  You wanna judge people, go play on Facebook.

[Salmon Trout]

Don't judge unless you have ALL the flipping details.  I'm not posting my whole freaking story on this *censored* board.  If you can't answer the question don't bother posting.  You wanna judge people, go play on Facebook.

Posting like this is not the way to win friends, and get helpful answers, on Computerhope. I think you just lost between 97 and 99 of your 100 CH lives. Maybe more.

[Salmon Trout]

I just saw the second post.

Mine, I believe.

Don't judge unless you have ALL the flipping details.  I'm not posting my whole freaking story on this *censored* board.  If you can't answer the question don't bother posting.  You wanna judge people, go play on Facebook.

Way to post like a d*ck. Good luck in your next job (if you get one).

[Squashman]

do you not have remote access to you network?

[BC_Programmer]

You can use task scheduler to create a new task, schedule it to run every day at 5PM, and for the command you can enter "cmd /c tskill quickbooks". Be sure to replace quickbooks with the base name of the quickbooks program. I'm <guessing> it's probably quickbooks.exe so I used quickbooks, but I don't actually know).

You can optionally set it to run the command (which will close all instances of quickbooks) say every 2 hours, but also require that your system had been idle (eg. no user interaction) for say an hour beforehand, or something. Task scheduler is quite flexible.

[BC_Programmer]

Mine, I believe.

First reply was yours, Patio's reply was the second.

I tend to agree with the sentiment. The type of stuff the OP wants is practically what computers are for. If it's part if his job, it is part of the computers job to make it easier.

[patio]

Fire the accountant...sounds like she's the issue...

[soybean]

I work in the company QuickBooks file throughout the day and before I leave I need to close out of the program.  There are several reasons why I may not make it back to my desk to do this at the end of my day so the program stays open and updates can't happen.  Then I get yelled at.  I'm trying to find a way to automatically close just QuickBooks at a specific time every day.

I think the common sense procedure would be for you to shut down QuickBooks when you are finished using it.  If another authorized user needs to use it when you're not there using it, then that person should have a QuickBooks password and just launch QuickBooks to do what they need to do and then close it when finished.  If this is not acceptable to the accountant, then she is not using common sense.

[BC_Programmer]

I think the common sense procedure would be for you to shut down QuickBooks when you are finished using it.  If another authorized user needs to use it when you're not there using it, then that person should have a QuickBooks password and just launch QuickBooks to do what they need to do and then close it when finished.  If this is not acceptable to the accountant, then she is not using common sense.

Based on the post I am fairly sure the quickbooks file being edited is on a network drive, quickbooks, as a program, locks files it opens on network shares, which means that the file is inaccessible for editing (if not viewing at all) to others when they have it open in quickbooks.

[Salmon Trout]

I work in a finance office. Good practice is to exit the app if you are going away from your workstation, let alone the office, and your instance of the app is locking files.

[Salmon Trout]

I've given her my password

This is bad. It is forbidden where I work, and if it was found out that anyone had done this, both people would be in the disciplinary procedure, and we would have to report is as a security incident.

[Squashman]

Maybe setting up Quickbooks for Multi-user mode would be the best option.