I found a quick way to do what I needed.
:loop_begin
start microsoft.windows.camera:
timeout /t 2
taskkill /im WindowsCamera.exe /t /f
timeout /t 2
goto :loop_begin
How to open and close Windows camera app from Command Prompt?
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I looking for a way to open & close Windows Camera app from the command line. Use case is to run reliability tests for my camera project and for this I may need to open and close camera app multiple times. If there is a command I was hoping to make a batch script to automate the process.
Thanks!
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Anonymous
2021-11-19T21:09:24+00:00 -
DaveM121 872.1K Reputation points Independent Advisor2021-11-18T19:57:08+00:00 Hi AshwinN9
I am Dave, I will help you with this, below is the command you need.
start microsoft.windows.camera:
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Anonymous
2021-11-19T08:04:10+00:00 Thanks a lot for your reply Dave.
Let me google around a bit.
Regards!
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DaveM121 872.1K Reputation points Independent Advisor
2021-11-18T20:25:53+00:00 Hi AshwinN9
No I do not know of a command to do that, usually when an application is loaded into RAM, that then is assigned a Process ID and you would need to find that to end the process, and that process ID would change each time the camera app is opened.
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Anonymous
2021-11-18T20:12:11+00:00 Hi Dave,
Thanks for your reply!
Is there a similar command to stop/close the camera app?
Thanks again!