It might sometimes be essential to make sure that a software program is running all the time. This can be another monitoring software, communication software, hardware or anything else that is important to run all the time.
Application Monitor is a portable application that can monitor software programs in intervals. If a monitored application stopped running Application Monitor will start it anew. The setup does not provide any difficulties even for inexperienced users.
It basically comes down to selecting applications from the computer, adding a descriptive name, selecting the interval for the checks and optional parameters for the application start. Every added application is listed in the main program interface and has to be checked before the monitoring process starts.
Several options are available that can change some of the default parameters of the software. The default interval for application checks is set to 2 minutes which can be changed individually when a new application is added to the software program or in the options.
Application Monitor can be configured to check if the added applications are started during software startup. There is also an option to send error reports to an email address that can be configured in the software options.
The downside of using the application monitoring program is the rather high, and unusual, memory consumption.
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Useful at first glance but for power users (and who else is going to worry about constantly running apps?) it is probably too heavy.
It would take only few lines of code to make such in some scripting language (like AutoIt, AutoHotkey, etc) and it is going to be more flexible with tiny memory footprint.
I’m agree with Rarst. Power users can write such apps themselves. :)
Similar app, but with more functions:
http://www.drinkprog.com/kiwi/