>>Folks,
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>>I have an VFP EXE that is launched several times on one computer, so that in the Task Manager I see the same exe several times. The programs are not running as services, but they do have the foxpro "invisible" setting on, so they do not appear in applications, only in processes.
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>>I would like to be able to distinguish these instances. One thought I had was to simply rename the EXE. But the processes still show up with the name the exe was compiled under.
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>>Any ideas how I might handle this. Recompiling does not get me where I want to go, as i want to do this in the field on the fly.
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>>As Always,
>>TIA,
>>--Ken
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>Try to copy exe instead of renaming it.

Sergey, I found that if you rename (or copy) before running it the first time, the new name will "stick." It seems that once you have run it, NT is "remembering" the original name.

Go figure.

Thanks for the reply.

--Ken