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How to check if some .exe program is running (is in process) on Windows?

I'm making java application which update one .exe program. So, if that exe program is used by some client, my application ask for closing exe program, and after closing automatically replace .exe file with new one.

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You can run the following statement in your java program. Before that you need to know the name of the task in task manager. Say you want to see MS-Word is running. Then run MS-Word, go to task manager and under the process tab, you should see a process named word.exe. Figure out the name for the process you are targeting. Once you have that, you just run the following code:

task manager

word.exe

String line;
String pidInfo ="";

Process p =Runtime.getRuntime().exec(System.getenv("windir") +"\system32\"+"tasklist.exe");

BufferedReader input = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(p.getInputStream()));

while ((line = input.readLine()) != null) {
pidInfo+=line;
}

input.close();

if(pidInfo.contains("your process name"))
{
// do what you want
}


line.contains(processName)

while

(processName)

pidInfo

while

U can try the following :

Runtime rt = Runtime.getRuntime();
and execute "tasklist"

tasklist returns a list of currently executing processes (as shown in the task manager's process tab).

Here's a full code for checking if an application is running on a Windows system or not:

Windows

import java.awt.*;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.util.Scanner;

public class ApplicationUtilities
{
public static void runApplication(String applicationFilePath) throws IOException, InterruptedException
{
File application = new File(applicationFilePath);
String applicationName = application.getName();

if (!isProcessRunning(applicationName))
{
Desktop.getDesktop().open(application);
}
}

// http://stackoverflow.com/a/19005828/3764804
private static boolean isProcessRunning(String processName) throws IOException, InterruptedException
{
ProcessBuilder processBuilder = new ProcessBuilder("tasklist.exe");
Process process = processBuilder.start();
String tasksList = toString(process.getInputStream());

return tasksList.contains(processName);
}

// http://stackoverflow.com/a/5445161/3764804
private static String toString(InputStream inputStream)
{
Scanner scanner = new Scanner(inputStream, "UTF-8").useDelimiter("\A");
String string = scanner.hasNext() ? scanner.next() : "";
scanner.close();

return string;
}
}


For instance, you could use the runApplication() method to only run the application when it is not running yet:

runApplication()

ApplicationUtilities.runApplication("C:\Program Files (x86)\WinSCP\WinSCP.exe");


The same principle applies for deleting the executable.

Just a suggestion for Java 9 or higher:

Interface ProcessHandle
static Stream<ProcessHandle> allProcesses​()


See also:
https://docs.oracle.com/javase/9/docs/api/java/lang/ProcessHandle.html

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