Batch File/Script

Windows Powershell will do the job (as long as your clients use Windows XP and upwards). Incredibly powerful scripting language.

Here is the problem:

The file I will replace will execute each time I close Internet Explorer OR Log off the program.

I was thinking that I could program the new file to not do anything if it knows it was executed after closing IE.

Does anyone know a handy way of detecting when a program was execuded?

Windows has a performance monitor and alerts snap in. I know you can setup alerts with the option of executing a specified program if a specified process starts, not sure if it lets you set it up the other way around though, but worth looking into.

We have a software application that calls a file "Remove.exe" when a user closes Internet Explorer AND when they log off the system (They are not logging off of Windows - just logging off a program.)

I replaced Remove.exe with my own modified file, but I only want the file to execute when someone logs off the system NOT when someone closes Internet Explorer.

Is there a way is some type of batch file or scripting language that I can have the system check if a processes is running? My thought is that when a user logs off there will be at least one less process; so in the batch file I can say somehting like, if this process is running do nothing and if the process is not running do this.

Based on your inquiry I came up with the following. Now I'm not a programmer, but I spoke with one of my IS buddies at work and he coded something real quick in Perl. Basically, you just need to input the process name to be called. Hopefully this helps or gives you a better idea. I work in the IT department and feel that I should learn Perl. Perl can really be a really good friend to any IT guy.

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use Win32::Process::Info;

# Get the process name from the input arguments

$processName = shift;

# Create a new instance of the process info module

$pi = Win32::Process::Info->new();

# Get all available process info

@info = $pi->GetProcInfo();

# If we received a process name, let's look for it

if($processName)
{
# For every process in the list, look for the one we want

foreach $item (@info)
{
$name = "$item->{'Name'}";

if($name =~ m/$processName/i)
{
# We found the process!

print "Found process $name\n";

# Here's where something special happens
}
}
}

# No process name was given, so just produce a list of running processes

else
{
foreach $item (@info)
{
$name = "$item->{'Name'}";

print "$name\n";
}
}

system("pause");

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ZiPPy

Zippy,

Thanks for the reply. I ended up using a batch file and and a program that can convert batch files into and EXE.

THe way I used to get the processes running was by using the "tasklist" command. I used tasklist and piped | it to the find command. The find command searches for the process I needed and returned one of two error levels. One if it finds the process and one if it does not. This seems to be working.

I will take a look at the perl.

Thanks!

I think creating a simple batch file would be the quickest way to go. The Perl script can get down to the nitty gritty of what you want, but of course this takes more coding.

What made you want to create this? I think its pretty cool to go beyond the lines here to create a function. One that you made on your own. I haven't touched batch files in such a long time. I remember when I use to make simple batch files to share a drive or remove them ect... hehe.

ZiPPy