.exe Not Running

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Preventapps from running on your Windows PC even when you double-click themDo you want to stop applications or .EXE programs from running on your computer? Applications and .EXE files can be individually disabled from within the Registry...

I am working on a service map, most of the app involves IIS-SQLDB and that part is mapped. The app teams are telling me there are additional components of the app running on additional Windows servers. These other Windows servers each have 1 running process (.exe) that is unique and can be used to identify as part of the map. I am struggling with how to include these other .exe processes into the map. On the running process tab for the Windows server, this process does not showing anything for "Listening on" , it does have values for "Connecting to" of ":80:1433:8090:". My first attempt was to create separate "Generic Application" entry points for each (there are 8 of these), but I was not sure what to put for a port number, which is required field. One extreme that I am thinking is to create a CI class and new pattern to identify this .exe, but then I think I would need to create new endpoint class also and new entry point. Seems like a lot of work, and would not scale for all the apps in the enterprise. So I wanted to ask the Service Mapping community on best practice for how to handle .exe running process. Thanks in advance!

What it comes down to is probably "what is good enough" and this answer may change from one application to the next. Is it good enough to capture the primary Web Server entry point? Do individual processes need to be represented which enable the alternate entry points? Are they likely to be managed independently from one another or are they likely to experience outages independently from one another? Do they have different downstream dependencies that would be impossible to discover without doing the deep top-down discovery that requires development of a custom class or pattern? If not, then don't be concerned about defining every running process for every unique application in the enterprise. But if there are compelling reasons for capturing those endpoints, then yes you should create the necessary process classifiers, CI classes, and patterns to enable the additional service mapping steps to occur.

Your post makes it sound like you simply copied a file (the EXE) to the target PC. Simply copying a file to a PC doesn't cause that file to show up in the Taskbar (or Start Menu). The purpose of an Installer is ... to "install" an Executable (and, one hopes, arrange things such that links to the Exe are put in the right places).

To be clear, when I ask if it showed up on the task bar, I wasn't talking about an app that is always there because it was pinned there. I was talking about when it is running, does it show up on the task bar. Or if it doesn't show there, did it even flash up there for a second.

I'm going to ask ASTDan if there is anything else about this program that might be a bit different or more advanced than other executables he's created. Is it possible there is a toolkit that needs to be installed that goes beyond the LV runtime and DAQmx you've already mentioned?

Ouch! Modifying the Registry is a good way to fix things, particularly as it often results in a requirement to reformat the hard drive and reinstall Windows! If you are going to mess, particularly with a sensitive key, back up the keys first.

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Hi Hannah, sorry for the delay. I have been trying to take a screenshot and send it to you with Screenshot Captor, but due to my inability to understand these programs I seem to keep messing things up. I am no longer sure if what I was doing was right and I couldn't work out how to send it to you. These 7 dropbox.exe were all running in Process Explorer and that is what I was trying to capture and send. Thanks for any help, Olddog76.

Also, I would like for you to locate your Dropbox icon. It would be on the task bar, next to your WiFi. Once you do this, could you hover your mouse there and let me know what the status and version of the Dropbox Desktop application?

Aloha,

I am trying to make a FloPy-based groundwater modeling project runnable in Binder so that the model can be shared with stakeholders. I can easily get the notebook up and running in Binder, but the trick is, FloPy needs to run a separate executable program (MODFLOW-NWT.exe) as a sub-process. I typically just download this .exe into my working directory. Once subprocess runs, MODFLOW-NWT.exe saves output files, and the rest of the script opens these files and post-processes model results.

If anyone can help to figure out how to run an external (but freely downloadable) .exe program from Binder, and I guess also how to save results as files that can then be re-opened and worked with, I would be very appreciative!

Mahalo!

When trying to run an .exe file on a mounted drive (ie: an installer) I get the error "Windows cannot access the specified device, path or file. You may not have the appropiate permissions to access the file."

Looking at the properties the file has Read permissions for Everyone and cannot be changed.

Whenever I try to run a .exe file, I get a warning that reads: "These files can't be opened. Your Internet security settings prevented one or more files from being opened". This only happened when I upgraded to Windows 11.

This also happens running the release build in Visual Studio? Does a debug build do the same outside of Visual Studio? When it appears to be hung, switch to Visual Studio and select Debug -> Attach to Process, find the hung process and then select Debug -> Break to try to work out where it is stopped.

A note for others who may come across this.

I was having what seemed like the same issue. It turns out my game was running and then crashing immediately. This was due to the way I was loading files using relative paths. Double check how you are loading files and make sure that the file paths changing is not the issue.

I have downloaded Vault setup from hashicorp and trying to run on my personal laptop.

I have set path also in environment settings like below:-

D:\HashiCorp\vault_1.4.0_windows_amd64\vault.exe (Do we need to use ; also in end after variable set - Pls confirm)

Brave.exe is the name of the owner of a number of processes. Each tab has its own process, the Rewards program has its own processes, etc. 10 Processes if you have a few tabs open is absolutely normal.

Brave for desktop is built on top of the open-source Chromium project. We add features on top of what is already there and we also remove features or pieces of the code. These deviations we make that touch the core Chromium code are done via patching.

Hello, I'm trying to upgrade to Creo 10. I received my license text files through email. I went to the software download page and got the latest version of Creo 10 (Version: 10-0-4-0) and downloaded the .zip file.

The problem I'm having is that the setup.exe file does not seem to work. When I double click or right click>run as administrator nothing ever happens and no installation window ever opens. However, when I go into Windows Task Manager I see a process called "PTC Installation Assistant" which is running. If I don't end that process I get an error when trying to re-run the setup.exe file which states "Please exit the already running installer or uninstaller first."

I was able to successfully run the "install_license_server.exe" and it recognized the license lm___.txt file and installed the license server successfully. That does not seem to help getting the setup.exe file to work. I'm running Windows 10 Enterprise.

2. I moved the install folder to my root directory on C:\ and tried running setup.exe from there without any luck either (apparently the pathway to the setup.exe file can cause issues if it has odd/international characters).

3. I've also tried downloading/running the "install from web" .exe file that PTC provides on their download page and that also fails to work with similar behavior (PTC Installation Assistant opens as a background process in task manager, but nothing happens).

Another odd/weird data point is that for whatever reason the setup-trial.exe file seems to work perfectly fine! However, obviously I do not want to install the trial software I want and paid for the full version. But I was wondering if there is perhaps a way to "convert" the trial install to the full package after the fact?

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