How to
Keep a program running that crashes without warning or error
For  Windows
7, 2008, Vista, XP, 2003, 2000
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An office computer has a utility that should be kept running
throughout the day, and sometimes colleagues accidentally quit the
utility. There's another program you'd like to keep running, but sometimes
it crashes out without any warning or error. These programs need to be
restarted immediately.
How to do it ...
- Open up PTFB Pro's main window by clicking on its tray
icon
- Click on "New Macro..." and choose "ProgMon Macro"
- Select the program in the resulting list and hit Next
- Choose "launch
the program if it's not running"
- PTFB Pro will suggest a command
line to launch the program. In most cases this will do fine, but
if you need to make changes or
cause the program to run under a specific account, you can.
- When
you're done, hit Finish
You may wish to tweak your new macro's settings after you've
created it. By default a macro like this is set to run every
second or so, but if you're happy with PTFB Pro checking for
the program say every ten minutes, you can change the repeat
delay in the Triggers page.
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