[python-win32] Detect when the user launches or closes a program?

[bob gailer]

Patrick Li wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to write a program that will perform some operation on the 
> user's computer when the user launches a particular executable(s) on 
> the computer and when the user closes them.
>
> One way to achieve this is by polling the process table periodically 
> and checking to see if one of the running processes matches the 
> executable name that I am looking for.  However, I would much prefer 
> not polling so frequently as it seems to be a waste of user's system 
> resource.
If you have control over the user's environment give him a .bat file 
that will perform some operation on his computer and launch the executable.