How to make .BAT file delete it self after completion?

Question

How to make .BAT file delete it self after completion? I have a simple bat file that terminates a process. I want that .BAT file to delete itself.

Answer 1

you could do @Merlyn's aswer

@ECHO OFF
SETLOCAL
SET someOtherProgram=SomeOtherProgram.exe
TASKKILL /IM "%someOtherProgram%"
DEL "%~f0"

Now make a vbscript with this coding and save it as hidden.vbs, this vbscript will hide the batch file's window.

set w = CreateObject(“WScript.Shell”)
W.Run chr(34) & “%userprofile%\desktop\the_batch_file.bat” & chr(34), 0
set w= Nothing

Then have the batch file run this vbscript

@ECHO OFF
SETLOCAL
SET someOtherProgram=SomeOtherProgram.exe
TASKKILL /IM "%someOtherProgram%"
start "path to hidden.vbs"
DEL "%~f0"

This will hide the batch file before deleting it making the error message impossible to see.