I am trying to write a small vbs (wsh) script that respawns a program
if it is terminated...for example: if I run notepad.exe from the
script I want the script to go to sleep (or checks every 10 seconds or
so) until the program is killed or dies and then reexecutes the
program (notepad.exe).

how come it is so hard!!!

Thanks heaps,

Damien

I am trying to write a small vbs (wsh) script that respawns a program
if it is terminated...for example: if I run notepad.exe from the
script I want the script to go to sleep (or checks every 10 seconds or
so) until the program is killed or dies and then reexecutes the
program (notepad.exe).

how come it is so hard!!!

Thanks heaps,

Damien

Here is a WMI\VBScript solution:

Set oShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Set oWmi = GetObject("winmgmts:")

' start notepad task
oShell.Run "notepad.exe"

' Waiting for solitaire to disappear
Do While True
  sWmiq = "select Name from Win32_Process where name='notepad.exe'"
  Set oQResult = oWmi.Execquery(sWmiq)

  If oQResult.Count = 0 Then
    ' start notepad task again
    oShell.Run "notepad.exe"
  End If
  WScript.Sleep 1000
Loop

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torgeir