Bat file to check if service is running

Questions: In my project, I have a large container with a handler for taps. Inside this container, I also have a button. Already read about pywinauto and SendKeys, but both of them activate window before sendin keys Add menu. How to check if a process is running via a batch script Posted by: admin December 4, Leave a comment. EXE YourProgram. Echo process. We'd recommend that you first head over to the Script Center, get your feet wet, and then come back to either ask or answer questions.

We can't be everywhere at once we know—shocking! The Microsoft Scripting Guys 0 2. Sign in to vote. On windows XP, we have a batch file that runs at startup and we are using port reporter to help monitor certain machines. ALL machines have the service but it is disabled until we manually turn it on. I know how to turn it on just not automatic net start spooler is an example. Friday, March 5, PM. However, when you want to execute other comments only if you had to start the service, then definitly go with the cleaner version from lc.

Peter Schuetze: Yeah, your objection is correct if starting the service is the only purpose. I also included logging starts et cetera, so I sticked with the solution of lc.

Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Looks for the line containing the text "STATE" Tokenizes that line, and pulls out the 3rd token, which is the one containing the state of the service. Tests the resulting state against the string "RUNNING" As for your second question, the argument you will want to pass to net start is the service name, not the display name.

Thanks for your effort. Unfortunately it does not work? Maybe I'm too stupid for this. I replaced "MyServiceName" with "SCardSvr" escaped as a test, put everything into a batchfile, executed it, but the service does not start up. Even if I replace net start with something else, like printing into a file, it will not be executed.

Would you mind taking a second look please? Oops I had some extra stuff in the first line there Try this. And if it doesn't work, what happens when you run sc query "SCardSvr" from a command line? Do you have "SCardSvr" in quotes? LittleBobbyTables: You are right. Without quotes made it work. I'm so stupid :- Thanks for your help — citronas. Small remark for anyone dropping by. Under Powershell you need to add ". Show 2 more comments. Coops Coops 4, 5 5 gold badges 35 35 silver badges 54 54 bronze badges.

It works because of the exit code from start. If the start command fails it's probably because it's already running and either way subsequently stopping it won't hurt , so you try stopping it. This is the best answer in my opinion, and maybe citronas should consider marking it as the accepted answer: simple, smart and elegant, and fits to a site like StackOverflow.

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