Checking exe status

[ghobbes98]

I wanted an appliction to run periodically that goes and checks to see if an exe is still running.
If the exe is not running that I want to be alerted to the exe falling over.
Any suggestions of something that would return back true or false if given an exe name whether it was running or not

 

[RichardF]

if you have windows 2000 or better then you can use the WMI :

i butchered this from an old vbscript:

Private Function findprocess(Proc As String) As Boolean
Dim WMI, Query
Dim cQuery As String

Set WMI = GetObject("winmgmts:&quot
cQuery = "select * from Win32_Process where name='" & Proc & "'"
Set Query = WMI.ExecQuery(cQuery)

findprocess = (Query.Count > 0)
End Function

 

[strongm]

You can use WMI on NT4, you just need to download the toolkit.