Force an application to be a single instance
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Mar 15, 202612645 viewsConfidence Score0%
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Is there a way I can force an application on Windows to be a single-instance application, i.e., not launch if another instance of the same application is already running? Ideally, I want to be able to do this without needing to replace the actual application with a stub, but I would not mind using …
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Normally you have to implement that "singleton" feature right into the application. If you want to guard it "from the outside", you have to use a wrapper which checks if you have another instance running already. There might be more solutions to thi…
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