Multiple Instances of Process

[armsys]

How to detect multiple instances of, say, msched.exe?

[JRL]

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[armsys]

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Thanks for referring to the VBS code written by Marcus more than 10 years ago.
Thanks JBL.

[JRL]

...the VBS code written by Marcus more than 10 years ago.

It is a handy piece of code. I have 25 different scripts using it the last one was written only a month ago.

[armsys]

It is a handy piece of code. I have 25 different scripts using it the last one was written only a month ago.

It's definitely useful.
Recently, for some odd reason, when starting Windows, Macro Scheduler won't run, even though its link is listed in the StartUp folder--C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\Macro Scheduler.lnk.
A moment ago, I wrote the following script (located at %appdata%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup) to start Macro Scheduler as an automatic backup.
Thank you, Marcus & JRL.

Code: Select all

VBSTART
'returns the number of copies of ProcessName that are running
'will return 0 if ProcessName is not running
Function IsProcessRunning(ProcessName)
   Set oWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" & "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\.\root\cimv2")
   Set colProcessList = oWMIService.ExecQuery ("Select Name from Win32_Process where Name='" & ProcessName & "'")
   IsProcessRunning = colProcessList.count
End Function
VBEND
// Find out the number (Num) of instances of Macro Scheduler
VBEval>IsProcessRunning("msched.exe"),Num

If>Num=1
  Run>C:\Program Files (x86)\Macro Scheduler 14\msched.exe
Endif

[armsys]

How can we find out Marcus' other useful VBS snippets?

[Meryl]

Should be able to search forums to find more snippets.

[armsys]

Should be able to search forums to find more snippets.

Of course, I did. The keyword is VBSTART. You'll find plenty of useful VBS snippets. Thanks for your feedback.