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Process Explorer is a very, very useful tool that has been around
and in continual development for a long time. Microsoft acquired the
company and the lead developer several years ago. It definitely
worth keeping in your arsenal.<br>
<br>
I'm not familiar with the workings of pcreservation, but if the
program that the patrons are killing is a Windows Service, you might
be able to find the service and, in the Recovery tab, set the
service to auto-restart after failure. That may or may not restart
the service in your particular case, where the user is terminating
the service intentionally (not a failure, per se), but it would help
if the service just spontaneously crashed on its own.<br>
<br>
Also in the service's General tab, you may find the exact command
used to launch the service. You might be able to schedule a task to
restart the service upon event of it's termination. Windows 7 (if
you're using it) has enhanced task scheduling capabilities. You'd
need to explore the execute on event trigger to see if you could
trigger the task upon termination of your particular
program/service.<br>
<br>
Those thoughts are what popped into my head first.<br>
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HTH,<br>
Chad<br>
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On 2/22/2012 4:35 PM, R Young wrote:
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<pre wrap="">... have found a way to circumvent our pc reservation time limit system.
they log on as usual, then launch a program called process explorer to kill
the pcreservation program. this allows them to stay on for an unlimited
amount of time.
I just discovered this today, and the things I have tried have not been
foolproof in preventing them from launching the program. We allow people to
save to flash drives, and I don't want to restrict that. However, using
Windows 2003 server, and setting restrictions on launching programs from
removable media doesn't prevent a user from launching process explorer from
a flash drive.
Does anyone have any suggestions? Is there something I have overlooked.
(Parenthetically, this program seems like it would be a handy tool for
techies looking for a quick way to close programs; much more elegant than
task manager--and free, to boot.)
thanks for any help
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