In a LAN, I want to have a small program on computer A, that must look to
see if program myprogram.exe is working on computer B Basically start the
program, piush a button which does the lookup and returns answer working or
not working.
Does anyone have any idea where I can find snippets of code on how this
could be done?

Thanks for any help,
Bob

You can do this with WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation) and some
googling ;).

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