Long Program/Process Names / Identify running OS?

Me_again · Post by **Me_again** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 6:02 pm

How can I identify which OS is running?

It appears that programs with long names result in different process image names in W2K and XP. So unless I'm missing something it looks like a portable macro that ID's and/or kills a process has to be conditional on the OS.

For instance "areallylongprogram.exe" will have a W2K process of "areallylongprog" but gets the full name in XP. To make it worse "areallylongprogram2.exe" produces a second "areallylongprog" process so in W2K and there is no way to tell them apart. (Yes, I really do have a third party application which has subprograms with names that long.)

I'm using the VBScript IsProcessRunning and KillProcess code that has been posted on here before.

JRL · Post by **JRL** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 6:32 pm

Will the Macro Scheduler OS_VER variable help?

Me_again · Post by **Me_again** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 7:03 pm

That's what I was looking for. Thank you!

pgriffin · Post by **pgriffin** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 7:06 pm

If these are programs are created by you, then could you prefix the program name (even though they may be long) with a unique string?

surely, in that many characters, you can make them unique....

Me_again · Post by **Me_again** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 7:18 pm

It's a purchased application. I hate typing so there's no way I would use names that long

JRL · Post by **JRL** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 8:13 pm

Me_again wrote:I hate typing...

Me too!