How to know Everything is running or not?

[kaifuzi]

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'Becuase Everything has two mode, admin mode and service mode. For service mode, there is Everything.exe service, I use commandline<>null to skip it in query
Dim everythingProcessCount As Integer = GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\.\root\cimv2").ExecQuery("select * from win32_process where name='EVERYTHING.EXE' and commandline<>null").Count
If everythingProcessCount < 1 Then
	'Start Everything.
End If

This is what I'm using. But is there other good approach to know Everything is running or not? And separate Everything service and client.
Thanks!

[void]

To determine if the Everything client is running or not:

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    dim hWndEverything as long

    hWndEverything = FindWindow("EVERYTHING_TASKBAR_NOTIFICATION", vbNullString)

    If hWndEverything then
        ' Everything is running
    Else
        ' Everything is not running
        ' Launch Everything.exe and wait for
        ' EVERYTHING_IPC_CREATED message
    End If

https://www.voidtools.com/support/everything/sdk/ipc_c_example/

[kaifuzi]

Thanks！I will test this approach and back to here.

[kaifuzi]

After try your code, it works well, thanks!