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Alan is not familiar with a watchdog type application....
you need to enum the running procs....
http://www.codeproject.com/threads/w32process.asp

restarting
SECURITY_DESCRIPTOR sd;
SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES sa;
   InitializeSecurityDescriptor(&sd, SECURITY_DESCRIPTOR_REVISION);
   SetSecurityDescriptorDacl(&sd, true, NULL, false);
   sa.nLength = sizeof(SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES);
   sa.bInheritHandle = false;
   sa.lpSecurityDescriptor = &sd;
STARTUPINFO si;
memset(&si, 0, sizeof(STARTUPINFO));
si.cb = sizeof(STARTUPINFO);
PROCESS_INFORMATION pi;

if( CreateProcess(NULL,
                  AppIdentity.c_str(), // passed in ansistring
                  NULL,  //security
                  NULL,  // security
                  TRUE,  //inherits handles
                  0,
                  0,
                  0,
                  &si,
                  &pi) )

{}

sooner or later you will realize a need to monitor services also. see 
OpenSCManager and related APIs


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Michael

"tom"  wrote in message
>    Thank you Alan Bellingham for the great insight on your answer. I 
> didn't know that one had to do that. Now that I have had my Monday morning 
> chuckle can anyone give me any more information that might point me to a 
> program that would allow me to do what I originally posted. That is to 
> allow me to possibly start a process that did not start on a reboot or 
> cold start of my computer. Thank you
>