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user3505775
user3505775

Reputation: 337

Task Scheduler windows to check the file is running or not

I want to create a task in task shaduler on windows which executed a xx.bat program whenever the program isn't running. The question is, how can i check the program is running or not whenever my computer is ready/on. So i just want to check the bat isn't running. When the bat isn't running, the task shaduler will run the bat.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 664

Answers (1)

MichaelS
MichaelS

Reputation: 6042

If it was an exe you want to check, Stephan's comment would do it. But running bat files are just shown as cmd.exe in the task list as long as you don't give the process a name. So the point is to start your bat file with a certain "name". You can achieve this starting with this command:

start "somename" xx.bat

Now it can be found with tasklist and findstr easily:

@ECHO OFF
SET running=0
FOR /f "tokens=*" %%A IN ('tasklist^ /v^| findstr /i /c:"somename"') DO SET running=1
IF NOT %running%==1 (
    start "somename" c:\SomePath\xx.bat
)

Upvotes: 2

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