Question

When you are starting a process and dont care about the result is this ok?

Process.Start(xxx);

Or should you do this

using (Process.Start(xxx)){}

Answer 1

Looking at the implementation of the Process.dispose(bool) method shows that it calls Close() on the Process instance. This in turn cleans up the native process handle so its probably not a bad idea.

It also cleans up a wait handle that it uses to check if the process has exited.

Even if you don’t use the using (...) block the finalizer will catch these resources in the end.