Article - CS342509
Creo View Adapters: How to use the taskkill command for Office/Doc worker
Modified: 10-Oct-2025
Applies To
- Windchill PDMLink 11.1 F000 to 13.1
- Creo View Adapters 5.0 F000 to 11.1
- Windchill Visualization Services (WVS)
- MS Office Services
- Adobe Experience Manager (AEM)
Description
- How to add the taskkill command for the xtop.exe or the office worker
- How to implement taskkill process on Office worker and have it executed when cadagent restarts the worker when such error is seen in the worker log:
Error
doc2pv Error:63002: Failed to publish document file
- How to ensure the taskkill command is executed after restarting the office worker (by setting the .rcp option adapter/exitCommandCount)
- How to clean-up residual WINWORD processes using taskkill
- Process is abnormal with lots of Word/Excel/PowerPoint process in task manager in office worker, how to deal with abnormal process
- Office worker configured to publish documents fail to close the application (excel) after publishing has completed
- This results in an increasing number of excel instances being left open/processing keep running
- How to automatically kill residual process for a doc worker
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