Hello ‘kocher’ and thank you for the suggestions.
The problem with the ‘multiple opening of the same program’ has been happening once-in-a-while on both computers running Weather Display.
But, over the past two months, the problem has been happening much more often on (only) one of the computers, maybe every 3-4 days.
Both computers operate under Windows 10 Pro. Both computers have the same release (version) number: 1803. Both computers have the same Windows updates. The setting on both computers are almost the same (many of the programs/software are running at the administrator level). Both computers run almost the same programs/software - the computer with the recurring problems also runs the XAMPP server software.
Note: I have stopped the XAMPP software for a few days hoping that would solve the problem - unfortunately, the problem is/was still there, with or without XAMPP, Weather Display was still starting the same group of (weather related) programs over and over … until there was not RAM memory left to start another copy (the computer has 24.0GB of memory installed and available).
For the past two weeks, I have been experimenting with some of the features of System Scheduler Professional (from Splinterware Software Solutions). I have created multiple System Scheduler events to close, the problematic programs (ie: Weather Display, cronairquality2.exe’, ‘cronopenweathermap.exe’, ‘cronpws.exe’, ‘cronwindycom.exe’, ‘ftpupd.exe’…) at a fixed time, twice a day. Then, after a few minutes, System Scheduler restarts Weather Display. So far, over the past week, Weather Display did not have a chance to start multiple copies of the same program.
Brian, I was hoping that you could find a solution … but I was also, not expecting that an easy solution could/would be found.
Brian, I know that you are only one person trying to fulfill the demands of many users, and I know that there are more important things in your life than spending hours and hours just answering eMail messages. That is the reason I stopped reporting on the problem.
Had I not been able to circumvent the problem using the System Scheduler events, indeed, I would have stopped Weather Display and closed my weather web site … I had nothing to loose … at 72 (years old) with a ‘shorten’ patience, I have (and can find) better things to do with my life then watch over a ‘temperamental’ computer.