Using WMI objects through windows script host exe instead of WMIC is also an option.It should on run also on every windows machine (excluding the ones where the WSH is turned off but this is a rare case).Here bat file that lists all processes through WMI classes and can be used instead of QPROCESS in the script above (it is a jscript/bat hybrid and should be saved as. The difference between two ways of QPROCESS usage is that the QPROCESS * will list all processes while QPROCESS some.exe will filter only the processes for the current user. QPROCESS '%process_to_check%' >nul 2>&1 & ( exe suffix is mandatory in this case where you pass the executable name): off More simple usage where it uses the name if the process as an argument (the.

QPROCESS command is not so powerful as TASKLIST and is limited in showing only 12 symbols of process name but should be taken into consideration if TASKLIST is not available.

QPROCESS * | find /i '%process_to_check%' >nul 2>&1 & (Įcho process %process_to_check% is runningĮcho process %process_to_check% is not running Set process_to_check=%process_to_check:~0,12% :: If other tool is used the line bellow could be deleted :: QPROCESS can display only the first 12 symbols of the running process :: first argument is the process you want to check if running If '%~1' equ '' echo pass the process name as forst argument & exit /b 1 I like the WMIC and TASKLIST tools but they are not available in home/basic editions of windows.Another way is to use QPROCESS command available on almost every windows machine (for the ones that have terminal services - I think only win XP without SP2, so practialy every windows machine): off I know sometimes reading batch/command-line can be kind of confusing sometimes if you're kind of a newbie, like me. ::give this batch a few seconds timer to avoid a false offįOR /F %%x IN ('tasklist /NH /FI 'IMAGENAME eq %EXE%'') DO IF %%x = %EXE% goto ProcessFoundĪnyway, I hope that helps. ::Also, some large programs take a while to no longer show as not running, so

::notepad.exe to the process you'd like to track

::You can Copy and Paste this into an empty batch file and change the name of ::Process names are CASE SENSITIVE, so notepad.exe works but Notepad.exe does NOT TrueY's modified Answer: ::Change the name of notepad.exe to the process. Let me clear things up to hopefully save some time for the next person. TrueY's answer seemed the most elegant solution, however, I had to do some messing around because I didn't understand what exactly was going on.

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