Alessandrorenzi 0 Newbie Poster

I already build a program-Client and a program-server
with vb6. Program-server is on a remote PC. Client and server are connected to internet, and comunicate with socket when they are running.
But now I need to add, if it is possible, that program-client verify if program-server is already running before start to comunicate and, if not, run it (program server).
How can I do it?
thanks for help