I have attached a Autohotkey script that closes the current user profile without saving, exits Dragon, and then starts Dragon again. You can also execute the script from Advanced Scripting in Dragon: ShellExecute "FullScriptPathandName"

If anyone has enhancements to the script, please let me know.

PG

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With recent changes to KnowBrainer the batch file had to be "run as administrator" (at least on my Windows 10 machine). I started exploring workarounds. One version is to create a shortcut to the batch file on the Desktop and change the shortcut’s property so that it runs as administrator. I did not have great success with this although it sometimes work. I finally wrote a tiny C# application in Visual Studio 2017:

using System.Diagnostics;

using System.Threading;

namespace KillDragon {

   class Program {

      static void Main(string[] args) {       // PIDs  

         EndProcessTree("KBPro.exe");       //5264  

         Thread.Sleep(2000);//sleep 2 seconds

         EndProcessTree("ProcHandler.exe");  //9864

         //EndProcessTree("KBProcHandler.exe");

         //EndProcessTree("pcbvWndProc1928.exe");

         Thread.Sleep(1000);//sleep 1 second

         EndProcessTree("dragonbar.exe");   //18008

         EndProcessTree("dgnuiasvr.exe");   //12644

         EndProcessTree("dgnuiasvr_x64.exe");  //700

         EndProcessTree("dgnsvc.exe");      //10500

         EndProcessTree("natspeak.exe");     //18088    

         //EndProcessTree("formfiller.exe");      

         //EndProcessTree("dgnria_nmhost.exe");

         //EndProcessTree("nsbrowse.exe");

         //the commented out trees are from older versions and helpers

      }

      private static void EndProcessTree(string imageName) {

         Process.Start(new ProcessStartInfo {

            FileName = "taskkill",

            Arguments = $"/im {imageName} /f /t",

            CreateNoWindow = true,

            UseShellExecute = false

         }).WaitForExit();

      }   

   }

}

-Edgar
DPI 15.3, 64-bit Windows 10 Pro, OpenOffice & Office 365, Norton Security, Shure X2U XLR to USB mic adapter with Audio Technica DB135 vocal mic, Asus X299-Deluxe Prime, Intel Core i9-7940X (14 core, 4.3 GHz overclocked to 4.9 GHz), G.SKILL TridentZ Series 64GB (4 x 16GB) DDR4 3333 (PC4 26600) F4-3333C16Q-64GTZ, NVIDIA GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060 GV-N1060G1 GAMING-6GD REV 2.0 6GB graphics card with 3 1920x1080 monitors

SP Pro performs all necessary operations including cleaning up the Dragon/KB/VC/SS+ ghost icons with one single Hotkey (Ctrl+Alt+Down). If speech is still available you can also use a voice command. 

No need to create any scripts. However cleaning up the ghost icons will only work of course if you have the "Always show icons in the notification area" set to On. Which is recommended anyway if you want to see what's going on on your computer.

Here's an example of quickly restarting Dragon + VC.

www.speechproductivity.eu 

Auto Box - SP Editor - HyperNotes - Hotkeys for Dragon - Quick Correct - Press Utility - Easy Guide to Dragon Scripting

With respect to SP Pro, does the process close the user profile or simply kill the process?  I don't want the user profile to be damaged, and so I prefer closing and not saving to minimize the chance of damage to the profile. 

Rapp,

The Dragon and VC (+KB + SS+) Restart utility kills these processes, cleans up orphan icons and (optionally) relaunches these add-ons. It's mostly meant if Dragon has become unresponsive/unstable and voice commands don't work anymore. In these cases you probably don't want to save your user profile anyway  

You can also use the tool if you are in a lazy mood ;-). If none of the above add-ons are currently running it will restart just Dragon (so it's not a condition to have these add-ons installed in order to run the utility).

The user can choose one of the following combinations: Dragon + VC Restart or Dragon + KB + SS+ Restart. 

I could combine all into one but that wouldn't make much sense since those who use VC usually don't use SS+ and combining VC with KB is not always a good idea.

www.speechproductivity.eu 

Auto Box - SP Editor - HyperNotes - Hotkeys for Dragon - Quick Correct - Press Utility - Easy Guide to Dragon Scripting

If you kill the Dragon process, you will not damage your user profile but assuming you are using KnowBrainer, all you have to do is say Close Dragon and KnowBrainer to immediately shut down Dragon and KnowBrainer, without saving your profile. Since this is a mission-critical command, you are prompted before the command will take effect.

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