Comments on: CRP: automatically re-launch apps and control a program’s allowed number of running instances

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Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:15:20 +0000

[...] Windows only: Free application CRP (Control Running Programs) performs two related but separate functions: First, it keeps important applications running no matter what, so if a program unexpectedly shuts down, CRP fires it back up. Second, it sets a user-defined limit on the number of running instances of an application. If you’ve ever unknowingly shut down your IM application, for example, but you need to always be available for your job, the automatic relaunching of specified apps can come in really handy. The second bit of functionality—limiting instances of an application—can be useful when you launch an application intending to restore the currently running instance but you get another instance instead. CRP is freeware, Windows only, requires .NET 2.0. CRP [via FreewareGenius] [...]

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By: jellywobbles

jellywobbles — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:16:10 +0000

Samer .. great review, thanks!

Will it stop multiple instances of Firefox loading? If it will, its a real winner, ‘cos this problem drives me nuts!

Cheers JellyW

By: FredThompson

FredThompson — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 05:39:33 +0000

I’d like something that will kill a running process if I choose to initiate a new iterration, similar to CPR’s function but the opposite. KompoZer and some other apps don’t close properly for me.

@cartmanffc, Startup Delayer does what you want but you must set delayed starting of some entries. Think about it, what happens when you try to read more and more simultaneous files from a single hard drive. The problem is not the program launcher. The problem is you’re trying to initiate more activity than your system can support efficiently. TANSTAAFL

By: cartmanffc

cartmanffc — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 23:41:47 +0000

awesome program!! it helps wmplayer.exe prevent from starting – thing I was looking for a long time….

another helpful program I’m looking for is a GOOD startup manager – better than Startup Delayer and WinPatrol; they both can’t start programs when cpu usage is low after booting (below some %)
Hyper Start is close to this but it’s too primitive…

any suggestion freewaregenius??

By: Rarst

Rarst — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:45:54 +0000

I mean that I may want to limit utorrent to one instance (manually) but is it going to break such open-instance launches.

Anyway I checked it out and it doesn’t break that… It actually tries but too slow to react so by the time CPR tries to kill open-instance it is already closed.

By: Samer

Samer — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:35:35 +0000

@Rarst,
No, you have to MANUALLY add each program you want this program to apply to to the list.

I will make this clearer in the review text.

By: Rarst

Rarst — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:24:08 +0000

Hm…

1. I have utorrent running.
2. I click torrent link in browser.
3. There is new copy of utorrent spawned that sends torrent to running one and exits.

Actually there are a lot of aps that work this way. Does limiting to one instance with CPR breaks this?

By: Prabhakar

Prabhakar — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:46:25 +0000

Samer…

You have been a real cracker for us…. your site provides solutions for almost all the basic and advanced needs of computing…. but please let us know if there are any articles or ebooks (which are, of course, free) that help us do our own PC Assembling (with knowledge about all the hardware components).