a program to open another program...

[DanFungus]

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!)

 

[RussianSoldier]

You mean like windows task manager>?

 

[DanFungus]

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

 

[Nothinman]

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

 

[DanFungus]

<< 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

 

[Nothinman]

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?

 

[DanFungus]

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.

 

[Argo]

To answer your question -- no there is no such program.

 

[Nothinman]

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.

 

[davesaudio]

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?

 

[Shockwave]

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"