These applications are running on police cars and fire/ems vehicles. They are the dispatch program and the geo-mapping program. The mapping program must load first before the dispatch program can load because their is an interface between the two that will fail if this order is not maintained.

There are many ideas here. I'm not quite sure how to start. If I had to put this into pseudo code I would say:

Code:
  

RUNorSHELL "c:\mappingprogram.exe"
  ?check for running process
     ?if process not running check again after 5 seconds (loop)
  ?next
sleep 10
RUNorSHELL "c:\caddispatchprogram.exe"
exit


Sorry, I just don't know how to put all of these recommendations together in proper code, yet.
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