This is quite annoying when any application hang or crash during the run! Sometimes, you have notice that few application runs on the background like IM client or a bandwidth monitor silently crashes- You got the following message like “Not Responding” errors.

So, if you still wanted to run those unstable program. I was looking for a free and small portable tool that can monitor for specific file. It can be monitor the crash results. I got Free Software Called restart on Crash. Restart on Crash is an monitoring tool that will watch the applications that you specify and automatically relaunch any program that hangs or crashes. You can add any number of applications to monitor, enable/disable them individually and edit the command line that will be used to restart an application.

Restart on Crash doesn’t require installation and stores all it’s configuration data in a “settings.ini” file in the program’s folder, so it’s portable. It should be compatible with most NT-based Windows versions.

One thing note down and keep in mind. “It isn’t running” option will make Restart On Crash treat the application as if it has crashed even if you have purposefully it closed it. You can get around this by disabling the monitoring of the application before you close it.

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