You can make executable command to kill Max

Replace Standalone Name in the script. One can easily make little exe file to force quit and start app. taskkill /IM MyApp.exe /f start C:\MyApps\MyApp.exe

Very interesting! I'll check that. thank you @Source Audio.

If you need any help making cmd file or exe out of it just post here.

Are these PowerShell scripts? Also, now I need a way to crash Max easily in order to check my scripts. Any suggestion?

this is simple batch script. Easiest way - open Notepad paste inside and save as .cmd

Doubleclick will execute it. I use bat to exe converter to convert script to exe application You don't need to crash max, use this script : taskkill /IM Max.exe /f There is one thing to remember : Max writes preferences on normal exit, I noticed that dsp settings fail to store if one forces Max quit, and also if main patcher window is close disabled, or full screen. One has to get out of full screen, or window flags close, window exec before quitting standalone, otherwise dsp settings won't store. -------- Maybe I did not state this clearly : taskkill needs no path, just the name of app to kill. start on the other hand needs full path to application and it fails if app is not on root partition

Ok, I understand what you mean by crashing max, to quit max might not let it hang, bang this message to provoke max to crash.

; max crash But I don't know if it would still keep hanging in the background.

I didn't know such a Max message existed! :-)))

However there's no process hanging in the background indeed. So I'll wait for the next "dirty" crash.

Thanks a lot @Source Audio!