Launchy is currently running. Please quit Launchy first to install this plugin.

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I can't install the plugin. I always get the following error message during
installation:

---------------------------
PuTTY Launchy Plugin Setup
---------------------------
Launchy is currently running.  Please quit Launchy first to install this
plugin.
---------------------------
Retry   Cancel   
---------------------------

Of course, Launchy is not running. I ran this before starting the installation:
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\username>pslist launchy

PsList 1.26 - Process Information Lister
Copyright (C) 1999-2004 Mark Russinovich
Sysinternals - www.sysinternals.com

Process information for WXPMLusername1:

Name                Pid Pri Thd  Hnd   Priv        CPU Time    Elapsed Time
Launchy            5452   8   3  199   8416     0:01:47.078    22:19:52.340

C:\Documents and Settings\username>pskill launchy

PsKill v1.11 - Terminates processes on local or remote systems
Copyright (C) 1999-2005  Mark Russinovich
Sysinternals - www.sysinternals.com

Process launchy killed.

C:\Documents and Settings\username>pslist launchy

PsList 1.26 - Process Information Lister
Copyright (C) 1999-2004 Mark Russinovich
Sysinternals - www.sysinternals.com

Process information for WXPMLusername1:

process launchy was not found on WXPMLusername1

C:\Documents and Settings\username>

It also happend on another XP I have where Launchy is not even installed.

Versions:

PuTTY-Launchy_Plugin-v2.1.exe

Launchy 2.0

System information for \\WXPMLusername1:
Kernel version:            Microsoft Windows XP, Uniprocessor Free
Product type:              Professional
Product version:           5.1
Service pack:              2
Kernel build number:       2600
IE version:                6.0000
System root:               C:\WINDOWS
Processors:                1
Processor speed:           1.7 GHz
Processor type:            Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor
Physical memory:           1016 MB
Video driver:              Mobile Intel(R) 915GM/GMS,910GML Express Chipset
Family

Original issue reported on code.google.com by adum...@gmail.com on 8 May 2008 at 7:48

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Is another user account running Launchy on your system?  I have no idea why this
would happen on a system with Launchy not even installed.  Here is the code for 
the
installer to check to see if launchy is still running:

Function WaitForLaunchy
  ${Do}
    Processes::FindProcess "Launchy"
    ${If} $R0 = 1
      MessageBox MB_RETRYCANCEL "Launchy is currently running.  Please quit Launchy
first to install this plugin." IDCANCEL canceled
    ${EndIf}
  ${LoopUntil} $R0 = 0
  Return
canceled:
  Quit
FunctionEnd

Basically, it waits until 'FindProcess "Launchy"' returns 0, which will happen 
when
"Launchy" is not running.

I am unable to reproduce this on any of my machines.  I suppose I could add an
"Ignore" button to the dialog to allow this check to be bypassed.  However, if 
an old
version of the putty plugin is installed, the installer will fail to overwrite 
it. 
Also, from my experience, Launchy does not reliably load new plugins at 
runtime. 
Both of these failure cases are assuming, of course, that Launchy is in fact 
still
running.

In the meantime, you should be able to extract the .exe file using 7-zip / 
WinZip /
WinRAR and manually copy the plugins directory from the archive to the directory
where Launchy is installed.

Original comment by matthew....@gmail.com on 8 May 2008 at 2:42

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Hi,

Thanks for your reply.

On the XP box where Launchy is neither running nor installed, I ran pslist.exe 
and
here is the result:

PsList 1.26 - Process Information Lister
Copyright (C) 1999-2004 Mark Russinovich
Sysinternals - www.sysinternals.com

Process information for DAMAGES:

Name                Pid Pri Thd  Hnd   Priv        CPU Time    Elapsed Time 
Idle                  0   0   1    0      0     0:24:42.862     0:00:00.000
System                4   8  79  233      0     0:00:22.462     0:00:00.000
smss                468  11   3   21    164     0:00:00.060     0:26:34.876
csrss               684  13  11  360   1712     0:00:07.600     0:26:33.614
winlogon            708  13  19  440   6068     0:00:02.703     0:26:33.374
services            752   9  15  262   1900     0:00:03.745     0:26:32.993
lsass               764   9  18  325   3524     0:00:01.742     0:26:32.963
svchost             916   8  15  192   2932     0:00:00.570     0:26:32.532
svchost             996   8   9  249   1652     0:00:00.801     0:26:32.262
svchost            1088   8  60 1285  11368     0:00:05.437     0:26:32.112
svchost            1148   8   5   74   1168     0:00:00.210     0:26:31.942
svchost            1196   8  15  244   1832     0:00:00.420     0:26:31.110
explorer           1576   8  19  613  14476     0:00:40.067     0:26:29.137
spoolsv            1608   8  10  106   2924     0:00:00.420     0:26:28.967
VBoxService        1708   8   4   33    616     0:00:00.751     0:26:27.886
TrueImageMonitor   1716   8  12  332   4112     0:00:15.031     0:26:27.876
TimounterMonitor   1724   8   5  190   6268     0:00:00.270     0:26:27.876
schedhlp           1732   8   1   33    552     0:00:00.100     0:26:27.866
ctfmon             1740   8   1   66    824     0:00:00.310     0:26:27.856
msmsgs             1748   8   3  166   1232     0:00:00.821     0:26:27.275
schedul2           1988   8   5   57    724     0:00:00.210     0:26:19.784
TrueImageTryStartService   508   8   3  201   4384     0:00:01.351     
0:26:15.408
wscntfy            1432   8   1   34    468     0:00:00.180     0:26:06.805
alg                1536   8   5  100   1088     0:00:00.370     0:26:05.313
wuauclt             992   8   3  138   5568     0:00:00.180     0:25:12.445
cmd                1184   8   1   32   1944     0:00:00.150     0:00:31.745
pslist             1084  13   2   72    712     0:00:00.130     0:00:00.350

I'm the only user on the system, so no other user can run Launchy.

I've tried to open the .exe file using IZarch and Winzip 11, with no luck. It 
doesn't
seem to be a valid extractable archive.

Can I help you in any way?

Original comment by adum...@gmail.com on 8 May 2008 at 3:51

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I've attached a zip file that you should be able to extract to your launchy 
install
directory.

Original comment by matthew....@gmail.com on 8 May 2008 at 4:00

Attachments:

• PuTTY-Plugin-v2.1.zip

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Thanks a lot, it works great!

Original comment by adum...@gmail.com on 8 May 2008 at 4:08

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There haven't been any more reports of this, so I'm going to close this issue 
for now.

Original comment by matthew....@gmail.com on 2 Jun 2008 at 1:14

• Changed state: WontFix