Adrian Smith's dashboard

I had the very same problem until I cam across Launch4j (http://launch4j.sourceforge.net/). It's a great tool and means that you can give all you java applications a custom process name, i.e. no more java.exe/javaw.exe.

The thing to remember is to tick the "Custom process name" tickbox on the first screen (I use version 2.1.5).

Here's the file I used to create jedit.exe...

<launch4jconfig>
<dontwrapjar>false</dontwrapjar>
<headertype>0</headertype>
<jar>C:\Program Files\jEdit\jedit.jar</jar>
<outfile>C:\Program Files\jEdit\jedit.exe</outfile>
<errtitle></errtitle>
<jarargs></jarargs>
<chdir></chdir>
<customprocname>true</customprocname>
<stayalive>false</stayalive>
<icon>C:\Program Files\jEdit\jedit.ico</icon>
<jre>
<path>C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_04</path>
<minversion></minversion>
<maxversion></maxversion>
<initialheapsize>64</initialheapsize>
<maxheapsize>192</maxheapsize>
<args></args>
</jre>
</launch4jconfig>