Process Managment

Hi,

is there anybody out there who can help me to manage my Windows-Threads/Processes. I am trying to get a list of ALL running windows processes, which does not seem possible with Windows 98. In Windows NT there is an interface called PSAPI, but I can't seem to get it to work with Win98. Another solution I saw is to get a list of all windows currently active. But this excludes those processes controlled by Windows.

Does anybody have a solution for me on how to detect all those processes?

'module

Public Declare Function CreateToolhelpSnapshot Lib "kernel32" Alias "CreateToolhelp32Snapshot" (ByVal lFlags As Long, ByVal lProcessID As Long) As Long
Public Declare Function ProcessFirst Lib "kernel32" Alias "Process32First" (ByVal hSnapShot As Long, uProcess As PROCESSENTRY32) As Long
Public Declare Function ProcessNext Lib "kernel32" Alias "Process32Next" (ByVal hSnapShot As Long, uProcess As PROCESSENTRY32) As Long
Public Declare Function TerminateProcess Lib "kernel32" (ByVal hProcess As Long, ByVal uExitCode As Long) As Long
Public Declare Function OpenProcess Lib "kernel32" (ByVal dwDesiredAccess As Long, ByVal bInheritHandle As Long, ByVal dwProcessId As Long) As Long
Public Declare Function CloseHandle Lib "kernel32" (ByVal hObject As Long) As Long

Public Const TH32CS_SNAPPROCESS = &H2
Public Const TH32CS_SNAPheaplist = &H1
Public Const TH32CS_SNAPthread = &H4
Public Const TH32CS_SNAPmodule = &H8
Public Const TH32CS_SNAPall = TH32CS_SNAPPROCESS + TH32CS_SNAPheaplist + TH32CS_SNAPthread + TH32CS_SNAPmodule
Public Const MAX_PATH As Integer = 260

'define PROCESSENTRY32 structure
Public Type PROCESSENTRY32
dwSize As Long
cntUsage As Long
th32ProcessID As Long
th32DefaultHeapID As Long
th32ModuleID As Long
cntThreads As Long
th32ParentProcessID As Long
pcPriClassBase As Long
dwFlags As Long
szExeFile As String * MAX_PATH
End Type


'form (Listview , 2 buttons)

Private Sub CmdView_Click()
Dim i As Long
Dim proc As PROCESSENTRY32
Dim snap As Long
Dim exename As String
lvw.ListItems.Clear 'clear listview contents
snap = CreateToolhelpSnapshot(TH32CS_SNAPall, 0) 'get snapshot handle
proc.dwSize = Len(proc)
theloop = ProcessFirst(snap, proc) 'first process and return value
i = 0
While theloop <> 0 'next process
exename = proc.szExeFile
ret = lvw.ListItems.Add(, "first" & CStr(i), exename) 'add process name to listview
lvw.ListItems("first" & CStr(i)).SubItems(1) = proc.th32ProcessID 'add process ID to listview
i = i + 1
theloop = ProcessNext(snap, proc)
Wend
CloseHandle snap 'close snapshot handle
End Sub
Private Sub CmdEnd_Click()
Dim i As Long
hand = OpenProcess(process_terminate, True, CLng(lvw.SelectedItem.SubItems(1))) 'get process handle
TerminateProcess hand, 0 'end define process
Call CmdView_Click
End Sub

Private Sub Form_Load()
Dim header As ColumnHeader
lvw.View = lvwReport
lvw.ColumnHeaders.Clear
Set header = lvw.ColumnHeaders.Add(, "first", "Process", 4200) 'set listview width
Set header = lvw.ColumnHeaders.Add(, "second", "ID", 1200)
lvw.Refresh
End Sub



Iouri Boutchkine
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Iouri,

I came across this code and implemented it into a program of mine, When I ran it on windows 2000 Professional with package and deploy it ran, but when I ran it on NT 4.0 with Package and Deploy it gave me an error "can't create dll entry point Createtoolhelp32snaphot in Kernel 32"

Have you run across this problem before?

Could you send me a message if you know the answer

PS - I'm running VB 6 with SP3

Thanks

DJ

I am running VB6 SP4 on Win98. I never tried it on NT. Probably it is different API, but I am not familiar with NT

Iouri Boutchkine
[email protected]

above code gives error like below

code portion............
Private Sub Form_Load()
Dim header As ColumnHeader


error......."user-deifined type not defined"


other doutful' code section is as under............

nap = CreateToolhelpSnapshot(TH32CS_SNAPall, 0) 'get snapshot handle
proc.dwSize = Len(proc)
theloop = ProcessFirst(snap, proc) 'first process and return value
i = 0
''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''possible errror section
While the loop <> 0 'next process
.....;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;possible error section
exename = proc.szExeFile
ret = lvw.ListItems.Add(, "first" & CStr(i), exename) 'add process name to listview
lvw.ListItems("first" & CStr(i)).Sub