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I want to run multiple scripts simultaneously, but monitoring them or detecting which has died is difficult as they are all listed as wscript.exe in the process list.

How can I change the name of the running process?

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Only way I can think of is to make a copy of wscript.exe for each script you need to have a unique name in process explorer then explicitly call that copy.

For example say you have renamer.vbs create a copy of wscript.exe and call it renamer.exe

Now run your script like:

...\renamer.exe renamer.vbs

You process should show up as renamer.exe

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Cheers, I didn't see this answered on SU and was intending adding the solution as per blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/07/…. You beat me to it :) –  Lunatik Aug 12 '11 at 8:33
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As long as the script is running locally then you can copy wscript.exe, renaming it to whatever you like then call this from a shortcut.

For example, if you wanted to show the process as WorldsBestScript.exe then you would call it like this

WorldsBestScript.exe TheActualScript.vbs

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The above assumes you've copied wscript.exe to the same folder as the VBS file, if it is anywhere else then you'd obviously have to include the full path to WorldsBestScript.exe

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