Allow one setup running at one time

[Manish Jhalani]

I have a custom wizard setup XYZ.exe created through Setup Builder 7.1. I want only one instance of setup should be running at one time. If setup XYZ.exe is running and user tries to(or accidently) run XYZ.exe; setup should not execute and provide message that XYZ.exe is already running.

I tried using FUNCTION:Detect Active Application(XYZ.exe) [File Name] to stop this scenarion but when I run setup first time it detects to itself. This is stopping me to run setup even once.

How should I workout this scenario in setup builder. Please help.

[linder]

Manish,

In Windows, you have to use a MUTEX to handle this.

SetupBuilder 7.1 reached "End of Life" four years ago on July 26, 2010. I have created a SetupBuilder 8 project for you ("only one instance allowed" demo):

http://www.lindersoft.com/projects/OneInstance.zip

Hope this helps a bit.

Friedrich

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Manish,

In Windows, you have to use a MUTEX to handle this.

SetupBuilder 7.1 reached "End of Life" four years ago on July 26, 2010. I have created a SetupBuilder 8 project for you ("only one instance allowed" demo):

http://www.lindersoft.com/projects/OneInstance.zip

Hope this helps a bit.

Friedrich

Thanks a lot. This was really super quick.

[linder]

You are very welcome :)

Friedrich