Re: Opening an application twice

From: Jay (nospam_at_*here.com)
Date: 06/15/04 

Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 22:05:56 +1200

"Hella" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1c82a01c452be$ab872080$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> How can I prevent users opening an appliction twice, for
> example an accounting program or similar application?

I don't know of any inherent XP way but one solution maybe to only allow
access to a given application via a "home made" shortcut.
The shortcut could be to a script which may check for an instance of the
application. Finding an instance would return a message box telling the user
(script then exits) otherwise it would go on to launch the application in
the normal way.
If you needed this for more than one application then you could create some
generic function, with each of the application's shortcuts passing the
application's name as a parameter.

Jay

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