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I have developed an application that detects if it is already running using Diagnostics.Process.GetProcessesByName(Diagnostics.Process.GetCurrentProcess.ProcessName) method.

But I have a customer with it installed on a Server 2003 that also hosts Remote Desktop connections. When these connections try to run the program they are told it is already running though naturally they have no access to it.

Is there a way of detecting if a program is running within a session rather than somewhere on the host computer?

Posted 7-Jun-12 6:05am

Graham Eady

Updated 7-Jun-12 9:44am

Maciej Los

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Tim Corey · Answer 1 · 2012-06-07T08:46:00

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You can use a Windows function to determine if you are running on Remote Desktop (a session) or directly on the machine (host computer). Here is a Stack Overflow question with the information you need:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/159910/determine-if-a-program-is-running-on-a-remote-desktop[^]

Posted 7-Jun-12 8:46am

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Maciej Los 7-Jun-12 15:45pm

It might be it! +5

Graham Eady 8-Jun-12 9:47am

Not quite the problem. I know its running in a remote session the problem is its picking up that another instance is already running elsewhere on the server. I only want to know if the program is running in this particular remote session so that every remote session has only one instance running in each. If there are 4 remote sessions running the program on the server then the server will have the program running 4 times but only once in each of the 4 remote sessions