Looking for ideas/help/pointers with an application management issue.....

Hi All,

I've an issue with vendor supplied application which for one reason & another doesn't like to coexist within a session with a host of other specific applications.

The problematic application ceased development quite a few years ago & now has minimal support from the vendor, so I have drawn a blank when discussing the issue with them.

To give a brief overview of how the application performs........ the exe is called by another process & purely acts a an initiator between the user & the other process, once this initiation has taken place the exe is theoretically useless however stays in situ as a minimized presence serving no purpose - Whilst sitting serving no purpose the exe causes other applications to become unstable.


My thoughts have now turned to having an automated process to exit the application after a period of time, I initially knocked together the below simple process of opening the exe in question



However (unfortunately) this doesn't work as the original exe has to be called from the process therefore I need something to possibly sit in the background & monitor (real time) to see if + when the executable is present then exit the process..... which is the point I'm struggling at.

Can anyone suggest a route to take? any ideas or pointers?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Many Thanks

Bob