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Hi Guys,
I am getting the following message running version 11 EOD on windows 7
"Metastock has determined that there is another copy of the program running. As only one instance of the program may run at a time, this one will exit"
I have tried shutting down the computer and there is no obvious instance of the program running can anyone help.
Thank you.
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Ditto. I get this with Metastock 12 and Eikon almost every time I load it
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It sounds to me like there is an issue with either the shortcut, or the user (sure you're not triple clicking shortcut icons instead of double clicking etc?) One method of fixing such things in Windows systems is to create a short batch file to execute a few commands first, then finally to launch the required application. Try something like this: Code:
@echo off
REM Check to see if an instance is already running
tasklist|find /i "mswin.exe"
if ERRORLEVEL 1 goto :KILLED
REM if an instance is found, kill the process
TASKKILL /F /IM "mswin.exe"
if ERRORLEVEL 0 goto :KILLED
REM wait until the OS has killed the process
SET /A COUNTER=0
:LOOP
sleep 1s
tasklist|find /i "mswin.exe"
if ERRORLEVEL 1 goto :KILLED
TASKKILL /F /IM "mswin.exe"
if ERRORLEVEL 0 goto :KILLED
SET /A COUNTER=%COUNTER%+1
if %COUNTER%<=10 goto :LOOP
SET COUNTER=
goto :EOF
:KILLED
REM the kill was successful, launch a new instance of the application
START /D"C:\Program Files\Equis\MS9" mswin.exe /l /e
EXIT
Even though we now live in a GUI world, the old-skool DOS environment still has some kick-ass functionality! wabbit [:D]
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If you don't won't to write a batch file, you can also kill the mswin.exe process from within the Task Manager.
Scott (aka Wabbit). You're a stud ! I hope everyone appreciates the time and expertise Scott puts into this forum!
--john
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