Preventing multiple instances of a Windows app - still a problem

[Mike Bonner]

Not sure the app in question is an lc app. Doesn't it only apply if thats
the case? If it is an lc app, then yeah relaunch is perfect.



On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 8:19 AM, Mark Schonewille <
m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com> wrote:

> What's wrong with relaunch?
>
> --
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>
> Mark Schonewille
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> Op 4 dec. 2011 om 16:01 heeft Mike Bonner <bonnmike at gmail.com> het
> volgende geschreven:
>
> > Since you just want to kill the process, and not necessarily bring it to
> > the front or anything like that, I think this is great advice. Just kill
> it
> > through shell, shouldn't matter if its actually running or not.
> >
> > However, on the vbscript side I found a MUCH easier way to see if the
> > process is running.
> >
> > Do the following as vbscript. (can run it direct, no need for a tmp file
> or
> > anything)
> >
> > Set colProcessList = GetObject("Winmgmts:").ExecQuery ("Select * from
> > Win32_Process WHERE Name = 'System Idle Process'")
> > result = colProcessList.Count
> >
> > If the result is > 0 the process is running. Note the single quotes
> around
> > my process name.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >> Did you tried this way:
> >>
> >> 1)
> >>  get "tasklist /NH /FI  " & quote & "IMAGENAME eq firefox.exe"  & quote
> >>  put shell( IT )
> >>  -- or process the shell() output
> >>
> >> 2)
> >>  get "tasklist /NH /FI  " & quote & "IMAGENAME eq Troubling\ App.exe"  &
> >> quote
> >>  put shell( IT )
> >>
> >>
> >> Solution 1, I'm sure it works
> >> Solution 2, didn't test it.
> >>
> >> HTH,
> >>
> >> Thierry
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