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Find whether a program is running(Windows OS)

Consider a situation where you had to execute a job depending on whether another/same program is running. To solve this problem, we take the help of tasklist,find commands. Here is the code which gives us that information, save it as a batch file and tweak it to your needs:
In this example, we are checking for imagename/process chrome.exe

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@echo off 
        REM use tasklist to get the entire list of processes 
        REM then using Find to see our program is running or not 
tasklist /FI "imagename eq chrome.exe" | find /C /I "chrome.exe" > nul
if errorlevel 1 goto notfound 
echo process found 
goto endfind 
:notfound 
        echo process notfound 
:endfind 
        echo End of Program

In the above code all we do is use tasklist command with imagename filter to get a list of processes, then use find to get the errorlevel. Most programs generate an errorlevel of 0 if the program or command executed properly and error level 1 and above indicates that the program did not execute properly.

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2 Comments for Find whether a program is running(Windows OS)

Author comment by Rushi | September 13, 2010 at 6:38 pm

This little snippet of code will not accomplish what you are looking for. However, to start with, you can actaully see what program is using more memory/cpu through the taskmanager. Then probably you might get a fair idea on what’s causing the issue.

dbworks | September 13, 2010 at 4:51 am

I was trying to do a similar thing but may be an extension of this. I am not a software programmer so have limited knowledge. I have a server running windows 2008 Std. Since about couple of months, the server seems to be having an issue and it becomes unresponsive. I checked the Events on the server but I could not find anything that will point out to why it hanged. I suspect two programs (1.File Backup application and 2. A accounting application) to be at fault but unable to confirm it. Do you think I can use this script to identify the problem causing program? Thanks!

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