WMI: Determine Running Tasks

[Chris Fink]

Using WMI, how do I retrieve the list of running applications on a pc? If
you open up task manager and click on the applications tab, I am trying to
retrieve the task name and the status. I looked high and low in the WMI
documentation and unable to find a class that returns this info.

Any help is appreciated.

#region List all properties from WMI Query
// WMI Documentation
//
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...re_classes.asp
string wmiQuery = "Select * from Win32_Process";
ManagementObjec tSearcher searcher = new ManagementObjec tSearcher(wmiQu ery);
Console.WriteLi ne("=========== =============== =============== =======");
Console.WriteLi ne(wmiQuery);
Console.WriteLi ne("=========== =============== =============== =======");
foreach (ManagementObje ct service in searcher.Get())
{
Console.WriteLi ne("=========== =============== =============== =======");
Console.WriteLi ne("SERVICE: " + service.ToStrin g());
Console.WriteLi ne("=========== =============== =============== =======");
foreach ( PropertyData s in service.Propert ies)
{
Console.WriteLi ne("Name: {0} Value: {1}", s.Name.ToString (),
service[s.Name.ToString ()]);
}
Console.ReadLin e();

}
Console.WriteLi ne("=========== =============== =============== =======");
Console.WriteLi ne("PRESS ENTER TO EXIT");
Console.WriteLi ne("=========== =============== =============== =======");
Console.ReadLin e();
#endregion

[Matt]

Chris Fink wrote:

Using WMI, how do I retrieve the list of running applications on a pc? If
you open up task manager and click on the applications tab, I am trying to
retrieve the task name and the status. I looked high and low in the WMI
documentation and unable to find a class that returns this info.

Technically, you can't. However, if you are trying to reproduce task
manager,
you might try something like this:

Process[] myProcesses = Process.GetProc esses();
int idx = 0;
foreach(Process myProcess in myProcesses)
{
if ( myProcess.MainW indowHandle != IntPtr.Zero )
{
Console.WriteLi ne(myProcess.Ma inWindowTitle);
idx ++;
}
}
Console.WriteLi ne("{0} Processes found\n", idx );

Basically, I'm looking at any process that has a main window. This
won't
work 100% of the time, but I think it works well enough to be useful.

Matt

[Chris Fink]

Hi Matt,

This should get me by. Thanks.

"Matt" wrote:

Chris Fink wrote:

Using WMI, how do I retrieve the list of running applications on a pc? If
you open up task manager and click on the applications tab, I am trying to
retrieve the task name and the status. I looked high and low in the WMI
documentation and unable to find a class that returns this info.

Technically, you can't. However, if you are trying to reproduce task
manager,
you might try something like this:

Process[] myProcesses = Process.GetProc esses();
int idx = 0;
foreach(Process myProcess in myProcesses)
{
if ( myProcess.MainW indowHandle != IntPtr.Zero )
{
Console.WriteLi ne(myProcess.Ma inWindowTitle);
idx ++;
}
}
Console.WriteLi ne("{0} Processes found\n", idx );

Basically, I'm looking at any process that has a main window. This
won't
work 100% of the time, but I think it works well enough to be useful.

Matt