in reply to Check if a process is running on Windows
Are you running the script/program as a service? I have recently stumbled upon this article and thought it might help.
(I hope you will pardon this response if it appears naive.)
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Please forgive me for earlier sending you the above link to an article which I only later on discovered to be available only to subscribers of the website. Anyway, for whatever it was worth, the basic idea at least was there. Hope that helps.
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