http://developers.de/blogs/damir_dobric/archive/2007/11/16/starting-of-process-on-vista-and-xp.aspxAssume you are starting the process with the code shown below. Then immediately after the start you would like to perform any operation on the retrieved process instance. In my example I start the process and kill it after 5 seconds. Process proc = newenCommunityServer 2008 SP1 (Build: 30619.63)