How do you determine the owner of a process

[Ken Soenen]

I can get all the processes on the local machine using "GetProcesses". Now I
need to know the owner of each of these processes. If the Windows Task
Manager could talk, I would ask it.!!
Any help would be appreciated. I still haven't mastered the finer points(if
there are any) of finding something in VB.NET help. Sometimes it takes me
days to find even something simple.

thanks,
ken

[Scott Swigart]

GetProcesses unfortunately doesn't return that piece of information. Here's
a link to another post that shows how:

http://groups.google.com/group/micro...6272a9b7ecd77b

Here's the code translated to VB.NET

Imports System.Management

Module Module1

Class Sample_SelectQuery

Public Shared Sub Main()
Dim selectQuery As SelectQuery = New SelectQuery("Win32_Process")
Dim searcher As ManagementObjectSearcher = New
ManagementObjectSearcher(selectQuery)
For Each proc As ManagementObject In searcher.Get
Console.WriteLine(proc("Name").ToString)
Dim s(1) As String
proc.InvokeMethod("GetOwner", CType(s, Object()))
Console.WriteLine(("User: " & (s(1) + ("\\" + s(0)))))
Next
Console.ReadLine()
End Sub
End Class
End Module
HTH

"Ken Soenen" wrote:

I can get all the processes on the local machine using "GetProcesses". Now I
need to know the owner of each of these processes. If the Windows Task
Manager could talk, I would ask it.!!
Any help would be appreciated. I still haven't mastered the finer points(if
there are any) of finding something in VB.NET help. Sometimes it takes me
days to find even something simple.

thanks,
ken

[Ken Soenen]

Scott,
Thanks for the help. For some reason or other it's choking on the
"Imports System.Management" statement. It says: " Namespace or type
'Management' for the Imports 'System.Management' cannot be found." And I
guess since this can't be found, the rest of the program falls apart. Any
ideas??

ken
"Scott Swigart" <sc***@swigartconsulting.com> wrote in message
news:95**********************************@microsof t.com...

GetProcesses unfortunately doesn't return that piece of information.
Here's
a link to another post that shows how:

http://groups.google.com/group/micro...6272a9b7ecd77b

Here's the code translated to VB.NET

Imports System.Management

Module Module1

Class Sample_SelectQuery

Public Shared Sub Main()
Dim selectQuery As SelectQuery = New
SelectQuery("Win32_Process")
Dim searcher As ManagementObjectSearcher = New
ManagementObjectSearcher(selectQuery)
For Each proc As ManagementObject In searcher.Get
Console.WriteLine(proc("Name").ToString)
Dim s(1) As String
proc.InvokeMethod("GetOwner", CType(s, Object()))
Console.WriteLine(("User: " & (s(1) + ("\\" + s(0)))))
Next
Console.ReadLine()
End Sub
End Class
End Module
HTH

"Ken Soenen" wrote:

I can get all the processes on the local machine using "GetProcesses".
Now I
need to know the owner of each of these processes. If the Windows Task
Manager could talk, I would ask it.!!
Any help would be appreciated. I still haven't mastered the finer
points(if
there are any) of finding something in VB.NET help. Sometimes it takes
me
days to find even something simple.

thanks,
ken

[Scott Swigart]

Sorry. You have to go into the Project | Add reference menu, and add a
reference to the System.Management dll.

Scott Swigart - MVP

"Ken Soenen" wrote:

Scott,
Thanks for the help. For some reason or other it's choking on the
"Imports System.Management" statement. It says: " Namespace or type
'Management' for the Imports 'System.Management' cannot be found." And I
guess since this can't be found, the rest of the program falls apart. Any
ideas??

ken
"Scott Swigart" <sc***@swigartconsulting.com> wrote in message
news:95**********************************@microsof t.com...

GetProcesses unfortunately doesn't return that piece of information.
Here's
a link to another post that shows how:

http://groups.google.com/group/micro...6272a9b7ecd77b

Here's the code translated to VB.NET

Imports System.Management

Module Module1

Class Sample_SelectQuery

Public Shared Sub Main()
Dim selectQuery As SelectQuery = New
SelectQuery("Win32_Process")
Dim searcher As ManagementObjectSearcher = New
ManagementObjectSearcher(selectQuery)
For Each proc As ManagementObject In searcher.Get
Console.WriteLine(proc("Name").ToString)
Dim s(1) As String
proc.InvokeMethod("GetOwner", CType(s, Object()))
Console.WriteLine(("User: " & (s(1) + ("\\" + s(0)))))
Next
Console.ReadLine()
End Sub
End Class
End Module
HTH

"Ken Soenen" wrote:

I can get all the processes on the local machine using "GetProcesses".
Now I
need to know the owner of each of these processes. If the Windows Task
Manager could talk, I would ask it.!!
Any help would be appreciated. I still haven't mastered the finer
points(if
there are any) of finding something in VB.NET help. Sometimes it takes
me
days to find even something simple.

thanks,
ken

[Ken Soenen]

Thanks. I probably should have known that. It works like a charm!!!!

ken

"Scott Swigart" <sc***@swigartconsulting.com> wrote in message
news:03**********************************@microsof t.com...

Sorry. You have to go into the Project | Add reference menu, and add a
reference to the System.Management dll.

Scott Swigart - MVP

"Ken Soenen" wrote:

Scott,
Thanks for the help. For some reason or other it's choking on the
"Imports System.Management" statement. It says: " Namespace or type
'Management' for the Imports 'System.Management' cannot be found." And I
guess since this can't be found, the rest of the program falls apart. Any
ideas??

ken
"Scott Swigart" <sc***@swigartconsulting.com> wrote in message
news:95**********************************@microsof t.com...

> GetProcesses unfortunately doesn't return that piece of information.
> Here's
> a link to another post that shows how:
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/micro...6272a9b7ecd77b
>
> Here's the code translated to VB.NET
>
> Imports System.Management
>
> Module Module1
>
> Class Sample_SelectQuery
>
> Public Shared Sub Main()
> Dim selectQuery As SelectQuery = New
> SelectQuery("Win32_Process")
> Dim searcher As ManagementObjectSearcher = New
> ManagementObjectSearcher(selectQuery)
> For Each proc As ManagementObject In searcher.Get
> Console.WriteLine(proc("Name").ToString)
> Dim s(1) As String
> proc.InvokeMethod("GetOwner", CType(s, Object()))
> Console.WriteLine(("User: " & (s(1) + ("\\" + s(0)))))
> Next
> Console.ReadLine()
> End Sub
> End Class
> End Module
>
>
> HTH
>
> "Ken Soenen" wrote:
>
>> I can get all the processes on the local machine using "GetProcesses".
>> Now I
>> need to know the owner of each of these processes. If the Windows Task
>> Manager could talk, I would ask it.!!
>> Any help would be appreciated. I still haven't mastered the finer
>> points(if
>> there are any) of finding something in VB.NET help. Sometimes it
>> takes
>> me
>> days to find even something simple.
>>
>> thanks,
>> ken
>>
>>
>>