Does anyone know how to make a batch file that checks to see if a program is in the processes and then closes another
program if the program in the process is closed?

For example: (Basically what I needed this for)
1. Steam opens origin and this batch at the same time (I can deal with this)
2. I run Battlefield 3 with Origin which starts 'bf3.exe'
3. I finish with bf3.exe and end the game
4. I want the batch that I started to notice bf3.exe was started initially and notice it closed now
5. On the batch file's noticing of the closure of bf3.exe I want it to close origin.exe as well

I know this sounds very complicated but does any of you know if this is possible in batch?

Thanks in advanced,
YoshiHDify

Not sure if I got it right...
This uses a quick&dirty method for parsing text with an separate txt output and findstr. I am sure that there are better options.
First loop checks if bf3 has been started, after that it starts to check if it has been shut off, if true then tskill origin.
I quickly tested this with two exe files and it seemed to work.
This will create a process.txt file to where you run it, it will contain just a filtered output of tasklist.

Hopefully it works

Thank you so much for trying to help me but it appears to not work for me
I launched the script started origin then started battlefield 3 with origin,
i quit battlefield 3 and origin was still open. the script just keeps going wait 1 sec, press to proceed.
try giving me the code without the comments maybe i stuffed it when i removed your comments.

also is there a special place i need to run this?

notes:
process.txt was created but was blank all the time

EDIT:

THANK YOU SO MUCH!
I did a few tweaks to it and it worked. I learnt that it worked case sensitive so for the process to be picked up
the scripted needed to be exactly how its shown in task manager, also I needed to use "TASKKILL /IM" instead of just tskill

Here is my final code tweaked with word and power point as my testers.

Taskkill /f /im - in this case, an app can be force killed even if it doesn't answer the quit code.

Ok time to have some fun I'll help ya out here I've done plenty of batch coding.

Heres what I think you wanna do.

Make a shortcut to the batch file so you don't notice its running to launch steam as well.

I can make this happen get me the Orgin.exe and Steam.exe locations as well as bf3.exe.

It should look something like this:

@echo off
Title Battlefield 3 launcher
pause
\\architecture check here
If Exist "C:\Program Files\(Path)\Steam.exe" (C:\Program Files\(Path)\Steam.exe) Else (C:\Program Files (x86)\(Path)\Steam.exe) \\Launches Steam
If Exist "C:\Program Files\(Path)\Orgin.exe" (C:\Program Files\(Path)\Orgin.exe) Else (C:\Program Files (x86)\(Path)\Orgin.exe) \\Launches Orgin
\\Are you Launching BF3 yourself? if not go on else skip this
C:\(Path to BF3)\bf3.exe \\Launches BF3
goto loop

:Loop
Query Process Bf3.exe
if %errorlevel%==1 (goto CloseDown) else (goto Loop)

:CloseDown
echo Closing Orgin now
Taskkill /IM /F Orgin.exe
echo Closing Down CMD now
exit

All done

Strange that tskill didn't work.. I have seen other systems that have that similar issue as well.

Good to know about that 'query' command, didn't know that myself, plus getting valid errorlevels as returns is always good.

Not quite, nearly there
I didn't want Origin running basically, so I turned the batch into an exe and made it a non steam shortcut.
I also wanted the steam overlay , So by launching The launcher which i added code to launch origin whenever
I felt like playing then launching BF3 from it I should theoretically have the overlay. I also wanted origin to close
after I closed Battlefield 3 so this launcher running in the background checks that BF3 was running and if it is
gets ready to kill origin after I stop BF3. Simple