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I need some help I can't get this to work. I am trying to write a batch that will check for a specific process. If the process is running it will check it again and if the process is off it will start it. Here is what i have so far but i keep getting a generic error.

@echo off

:THERE
Start chrome.exe
:HERE
tasklist /fi "STATUS eq chrome.exe" >nul
If errorlevel 1 goto THERE else goto HERE

pause

What is the generic error?

I was under the impression that if ELSE was used with IF then it needed to be formatted with parrenthesis...

IF ERRORLEVEL 1 (DO ONE) ELSE (DO TWO)

IF ERROR LEVEL 1 (
DO ONE
)
ELSE
(
DO TWO
)



Also, I've had issues using GOTO statements within if statements. I've often done something like ECHO. & GOTO HERE in order to get it to work correctly because it wouldn't work with just a GOTO HERE.

Thanks for replying. I tried to use the parenthesis but it did not help. It keeps giving me infinite generic errors. I wonder if there is a different way to code it? All I want it to do is reopen a program every time it is closed.

p.s. I'm new to dos coding.

The Great One
I have a Russian M$ "Windows", so I do not know, really need to look for "Running" or another word. Check it before use, otherwise you bury surf windows

Or, if you do not need to check the Hanging application, then simply write:

I just attempted to perform a similar function using TASKLIST, it didn't appear to return a different errorlevel when the filter found the task.

Thanks for all your help guys. It works now using !k's code

@echo off
:nono
tasklist /v /fi "imagename eq calc.exe" 2>nul |findstr "Running" >nul ||start calc.exe
goto :nono

I did post another topic that has not been answered so any help with that would be appreciated too.

I got it working using FOR ...

:LOOP

FOR /F "skip=3 usebackq tokens=1" %%i in (`TASKLIST /FI "IMAGENAME eq CALC.EXE"`) DO (
IF NOT "%%i"=="" Echo Process is Running
SLEEP 1
)

GOTO LOOP