List of Application in Applications Tab in Task Manager

Sriram Krishnan

Hi guys,

I'm a novice to programming. Am happy to be here. This is my first post in a forum and happy to be here.

My question is regarding how can i get a list of all applications in Task Manager in Applications Tab.

I used System.Diagonistics.Process class and used the condition p.mainWindowTitle.Length >1 to get main window title of all processes.

But certain processes may have multiple windows in my case. You can see it by opening calc in windows and going to Help -> Help topics

Now when i use the above class, i couldn't get the handle of this help window.. But it'll be present in task manager list. Both calculator and calculator help are from calc.exe process...

Is there anyway to get all windows associated with a single process..??

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T S15y ago
Hi, have you completed this task? I am also looking for the same problem plz reply me if you are able to get this applications tab list..
Suthish Nair15y ago
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Sam Hobbs15y ago
Windows does not provide a direct way to do that. I am not sure if you want to do this for just one particular process or for all processes with a window. I will assume you want all processes with windows.

What you want to do is to enumerate top-level windows; see How to: Implement Callback Functions for a simple sample.
Sriram Krishnan15y ago
It many be any application boss... Just imagine it.. This is not a specific thing... I'll run an exe, from which another page is launched. But both my exe and that application will be under same process ID.. but two applications.. can yo get the scenario now ??
Suthish Nair15y ago
can you provide the application you want to access through process.
Sriram Krishnan15y ago
Hi Mr.Suthish, My case is not only about HelpPane. Just i gave that as an example. I want the list of all applications same as in Applications tab of Task Manager even if a single process has multiple windows..

Suthish Nair15y ago

By using below code am able to get all process

Dim prsLink() As Process = System.Diagnostics.Process.GetProcesses()
For Each proces As System.Diagnostics.Process In prsLink
  If proces.ProcessName = "HelpPane" Then
    proces.Refresh()
    If Not proces.HasExited Then
      proces.Kill()
    End If
  End If
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