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a program to open another program...

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DanFungus

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I'm looking for a program, that if another program is not running, then the first will open the second. As in, if someone else gets on my computer, closes a program and i'm not around to re-open it, is there an application to open it? FTP Server, Web Server, SeTi, and Folding in mind....

(Thank you!)
 
what i mean is...situation:

friend gets on the computer, closes WarFTP daemon (FTP Server)
I'm at school, try to login to my FTP server, and can't since the program isn't running

situation i want to have:

friend gets on the computer, closes WarFTP daemon (FTP Server)
X application re-opens WarFTP daemon
I login to my FTP server with no problems

Basically, I tell X application that whenever WarFTP is not running, to start it, and it does automatically
 


<< Did you ever think about telling your friend not to kill what you have running? >>


....I'm not going to say anything to you, because you completely missed the whole point of this, yet you must assume that I am an idiot? Whatever, I guess there is no program, so just forget about it 🙁
 
I did not miss the point, but instead of fixing the symptom with a program to work around your idiot friend, why not fix the problem by making your friend stop killing your services?
 
having a friend close it was just an example, nothing more. For ANY reason that a program might close, i wanted a program to re-open it.
 
To answer your question -- no there is no such program.

Maybe not for Windows, but I know there are some for unix. And it doesn't seem like a very hard thing to write either.

Of course if this is Win2K you could make the program a service and set Windows to restart it when it dies.
 
thought I saw a utility that converted programs to services..
can't remember where
or as the above post suggest does that only work in nt/2000?
 
Not really the fix ya want, but what comes to mind
A) Kill idiot friend
B) Lock Workstation

B may be the preferable method, course that depends on what said friend actually does to said PC when said owner of above stated PC is not on premise 🙂

Figured in case ya do Option A, I'll get ya used to "legal speak"
 
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