Would like to check for a running process then kill it...

[setherd]

I'm currently running Vista home premium SP1 64bit and event ghost 0.3.6.1449

I use sagetv and want to stop the vista media center programs that take over the MCE remote from running.
I need to kill ehtray.exe (main one) and also ehmsas.exe

I have event ghost running taskill.exe with the parameters "/F /IM ehtray.exe /IM ehmsas.exe /T"
that works but I would like to some how periodically check to see if ehtray.exe is running and if it is run my command again.

if anyone could point me in the right direction to check I would greatly appreciate it.

take care,
Seth

[jinxdone]

Wouldn't it be much neater to disable the media center related windows service(s) and stop it from running at all in the first place?

Anyway, you should take a look at the eventghost's 'find task' action (or similiar, can't remember the exact name). With that action you can for example run a macro only if the process in question was found running. Combined with a triggering action that is scheduled I suppose it'd do what you are looking for.

[setherd]

Wouldn't it be much neater to disable the media center related windows service(s) and stop it from running at all in the first place?

Anyway, you should take a look at the eventghost's 'find task' action (or similiar, can't remember the exact name). With that action you can for example run a macro only if the process in question was found running. Combined with a triggering action that is scheduled I suppose it'd do what you are looking for.

I have the media center services disabled, but stupid vista keeps starting the IR receiver program. I have tried many ways to stop it from starting. it actually pisses me off that I can't control what programs run on my PC.
I have read that if I had the ultimate version or any of the business versions I could use the group policy editor to do this but the home version lack it.

thanks, i'll check out the find task feature

[setherd]

OK I have searched high and low would this be related to the task create/switch plugin?
if so do I neeed to write a macro in python (i don't know any python)

[jinxdone]

I just checked and the action I was referring to is in Window -> "Find a window".

Anyway, since what you are trying to do is archieved by group policy, and the group policies usually just set a registry key, if you know what to change you can usually do the same thing with regedit.

Here's some instructions how to disable the media center service.
http://www.mydigitallife.info/2008/02/2 ... -in-vista/

Microsoft's reference of server 2008/vista group policy registry settings.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... ayLang=en"