Configuring a program that executes only once.

[Robin Pande]

I am working for the company. The entire users are working on the same application .That application is installed on every PC. When we try to run second time that application it prompts an error message. Every day we are facing the same problem. We are unable to do our daily works. We will really appreciate if you can provide appropriate solution. We are thanking you in advance for your replies

[Badrunath]

That’s very bad! Well I am writing some code simply try on your code it may work. tasklist /FI "IMAGENAME eq notepad.exe" 2>NUL | find /I /N "notepad.exe">NULIF %ERRORLEVEL% == 0 GOTO popup IF %ERRORLEVEL% == 1 GOTO EXEC :popup run command prompt and type. /C "ECHO Application Already Running, Press any key to close this window&& PAUSE":EXEC start notepad.exe :EXIT Note that you should replace the name of program with notepad.exe.

[void]

You can run the following batch file to fix the problem I hope it will work for you. tasklist /FI "IMAGENAME eq notepad.exe" 2>NUL | find /I /N "notepad.exe">NUL IF %ERRORLEVEL% == 0 GOTO EXIT IF %ERRORLEVEL% == 1 GOTO EXEC :EXEC start notepad.exe :EXIT It will exit the command prompt. Write the name of program instead of notepad.exe. It’s a cleaner batch file allows the user to select any icon as short cut that user want. Thanking you for the using this solution.

[!const]

You can also try another batch file which is as follow. You should create $oem$ directory inside I386 directory. You have to export Runonce.ini from the registry. I should like REGEDIT4[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce]@="c:\\WinNT\\System32\\Calc.exe" Regedit.exe should be copied in to $oem$ directory. Write the following line in the text editor. Save as Cmdlines.txt. OEMPREINSTALL should be set to yes. you should run the unattended setup