how is windows explorere being restarted every time its killed ?

[Vijay Chegu]

Hi all,

I have an application that i start during windows boot process which
could get killed bcoz of some errors.

What i want is when ever it gets killed it need to be restarted
automatically.

i can always have a different application monitoring it or a service
doing the monitoring part. But i would like to check out is there any
setting in registry or any facility provided by windows itself that
will restart my application when it gets killed ?

when windows explorer gets killed, it is automatically restarted in
windows.
how is it done ? any one has any info ?

Regards,
Vijay Chegu
//vijaycheguwindowsexplorer

 

[Mike J]

The Annoyance: I accidentally closed a program in the
system tray, and suddenly I couldn't find the program on
my Start menu. Doubly annoying: The program would load
when I booted, so rebooting seemed to be the only way to
get it running again.

The Fix: Click Start,Programs (All Programs in Windows
XP),Startup. Chances are good that a shortcut to your
program is listed on that menu. Just click it, and the
program starts going again. What? The program's not there?
Don't fret: Select Start,Programs [All Programs in
XP],Accessories,System Tools,System Information. In the
left pane of the System Information dialog box, double-
click Software Environment and select Startup Programs.
The right pane will list all the programs that run at
start-up. (Scary, isn't it?) You should find the program
you're looking for in this list. Select it and press
<Ctrl>-C to copy the entire line.
It would be nice if System Information let you copy just
the command you need, but no: You must take the whole line
or nothing. And if you use Windows 2000, you can't press
<Ctrl>-C to copy the line, so instead right-click it,
select Save As Text File, type restart (or the name of
your choice) in the 'File name' field, and click Save.
Open the text file you just created, press <Ctrl>-A to
select the text, and press <Ctrl>-C to copy it.

Now click Start,Run and press <Ctrl>-V to paste the line
into the Run dialog box's Open field. Delete all the text
before and after the command itself, and press Enter. The
program should reload, and its system tray icon should
reappear.
taken from an excerpt at this url vgl2u
http://pcworld.com/howto/article/0,aid,112027,pg,2,00.asp