Hi, Does anyone know of a free application monitor that will restart an application if its not running after a certain amount of time. I have found 3 and none of them work quite how I need it to. Application monitor (jockersoft) works well but is on the screen all the time, and minimised is not good enough. Keep running(JP electronic.com) is no good as it blanks out the page. Autorestart (dont know the supplier) doesnt work at all for my machine. So any alternatives would be welcomed, I cant use autoit. This on windows.
I'm not sure about software, but do you know if the application runs as a service? (I'm doing this under XP fyi.) If so, go to run > services.msc Find the process in the list and right click > properties You have a few options on the Recovery tab. For first, second and subsequent failures you can either restart the service or run a program. Most application restarter software just makes changes here.
Uh, okay, I'm out then. If you have the time to play, you could try registering the app as a service: http://www.msfn.org/board/How-to-run-a-program-as-a-Service-t83272.html Failing that, Google brought up a few others to try. One looks to be donation ware and the other commercial. I know you wanted free, but I couldn't find anything open source and don’t really have the time to look in detail right now :/ http://fsl.sytes.net/watchdog.html http://www.kwakkelflap.com/watchdog.html
Task Scheduler? That has the options to restart the task if it stops, and you can even set a lot more options. Check it out. Also, knowing exactly what you want to accomplish would help us to help you.
