Question

I want to restart some process. Lets call it someApp.exe.
How can I restart that process? It’s not my application. It’s some external program.

Answer 1

What you want to do is:

• Kill the process
• Start it again

There are some ways of obtaining a Process instance in C#. Let’s suppose you know the name of the process:

var process = Process.GetProcessesByName("notepad++")[0];

Then you can do:

process.Kill();

But to start it again, you need to know the path of the process, so before killing it, save the path of the executable:

var path = process.MainModule.FileName;

And then you can do:

Process.Start(path);

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You should check if GetProcessesByName returns elements before taking the first element, but I just wanted to focus on the important thing here.