How to create a Process that outlives its parent

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It seems that the problem you are seeing has a different reason because the Process class will not kill any processes started using Process.Start when your application exits.

See this simple sample program, the calculator will stay open:

using System.Diagnostics;

class Program
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        Process.Start(@"C:\windows\system32\calc.exe");
    }
}

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