Keep a program "alive" on Windows 10?

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#262159 8-Jan-2020 11:13

Im looking for something for Windows 10 to keep my installation of Jellyfin server running - it has a tendency to crash every few days without any real reason. For some reason I cant get the advanced setup which allows it to run as as service to work correctly - it'll setup fine, run for a while then lock you out of the user login.

Ive tried a few programs that seem to have been around for a while but none seem to run all that well on Win10. I think most of the ones I have tried have had no active development in like forever. Ive looked at a few from here but didnt find any that really just worked the way I want. CRP just didnt run, ProcessAlive kept losing its settings every reboot (although it did work other than losing the settings), ReStartMe just threw up errors constantly, Srvman didnt seem to recognize the program was running and kept putting it into a stop/start loop.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

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#2387294 8-Jan-2020 11:55

Create two Bat files and run them using Windows scheduler (do so with admin rights). You could run this every 24 or 48 hours in the middle of the night. It obviously doesnt know if the program stopped but you said it only fails after 3 days

Close the program

@echo off
cd "C:\Program Files (x86)\location-of-exe\"
timeout /T 5 /nobreak >nul
taskkill /IM programName.exe /F

Open the program

cd "C:\Program Files (x86)\location-of-exe\"
timeout /T 5 /nobreak >nul
Start "" /b programName.exe

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#2387297 8-Jan-2020 12:06

Ive used ServerDoc in the past with great success. Has a free version to get you going .. if you want to check many items on a PC (or server) the pro version is not much per year and enables some really nice features (like remote restart/control of a service.

http://serverdoc.com

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#2387304 8-Jan-2020 12:20

If your app is creating an event in the event log when it crashes, I think one can set task scheduler to restart the app when the event occurs.

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#2387308 8-Jan-2020 12:25

I cant remember the name of it, but I was trialling a program that turned the exe into a "service", so then you treated it as a Windows Service - so could set the settings that if it died, to restart. Worked well for my needs at the time.

Theres a few variations out there, so Google "use program as a service" or similar.

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#2387310 8-Jan-2020 12:37

xpd:

I cant remember the name of it, but I was trialling a program that turned the exe into a "service", so then you treated it as a Windows Service - so could set the settings that if it died, to restart. Worked well for my needs at the time.

Theres a few variations out there, so Google "use program as a service" or similar.

probably Srvany

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#2387367 8-Jan-2020 13:50

Thanks for the suggestions. I'll see how it runs since reinstalling it today (wont know for a couple of days!). If that doesnt work I'll try srvany, if that doesnt work I can always schedule a restart of the computer more often. Just ideally want something that will reload it fairly quickly if it stops.

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#2387368 8-Jan-2020 13:51

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