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Vbscript Check if a process is running or not?

Hackoo Crackoo answered on August 25, 2022 Popularity 3/10 Helpfulness 8/10

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Vbscript Check if a process is running or not?

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Option Explicit
Dim ws,MyApplication,MyProcess
Set ws = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
MyApplication = "%Programfiles%\WinRAR\WinRAR.exe"
MyProcess = "WinRAR.exe"
Do
'We check if the process is not running so we execute it
    If CheckProcess(MyProcess) = False then 
        Call Executer(DblQuote(MyApplication),0)'0 to Hide the console
'We made a one-minute break and continue in our loop to check 
'whether or not our process exists(in our case = WinRAR.exe)
        Pause(1)
    End if
Loop
'***********************************************************************************************
Function CheckProcess(MyProcess)
    Dim strComputer,objWMIService,colProcessList
    strComputer = "."
    Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _
    & "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")
    Set colProcessList = objWMIService.ExecQuery _
    ("Select Name from Win32_Process WHERE Name LIKE '" & MyProcess & "%'")
        If colProcessList.count > 0 then
            CheckProcess = MyProcess & " is running"
            CheckProcess = True
        else
            CheckProcess = MyProcess & " is not running"
            CheckProcess = False
        End if
    Set objWMIService = Nothing
    Set colProcessList = Nothing
End Function
'***********************************************************************************************
    Sub Pause(NMins)
        Wscript.Sleep(NMins*1000*60)
    End Sub  
'***********************************************************************************************
 Function Executer(StrCmd,Console)
    Dim ws,MyCmd,Resultat
    Set ws = CreateObject("wscript.Shell")
'La valeur 0 pour cacher la console MS-DOS
    If Console = 0 Then
        MyCmd = "CMD /C " & StrCmd & " "
        Resultat = ws.run(MyCmd,Console,True)
        If Resultat = 0 Then
        Else
            MsgBox "Une erreur inconnue est survenue !",16,"Une erreur inconnue est survenue !"
        End If
    End If
'La valeur 1 pour montrer la console MS-DOS
    If Console = 1 Then
        MyCmd = "CMD /K " & StrCmd & " "
        Resultat = ws.run(MyCmd,Console,False)
        If Resultat = 0 Then
        Else
            MsgBox "Une erreur inconnue est survenue !",16,"Une erreur inconnue est survenue !"
        End If
    End If
    Executer = Resultat
End Function
'**********************************************************************************************
Function DblQuote(Str)
    DblQuote = Chr(34) & Str & Chr(34)
End Function
'**********************************************************************************************

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Tags: process shell vbscript

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Contributed on Aug 25 2022

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