Whether an application is running?

[chaitu]

I am writing a service and my service is supposed to function only when a particular application is not running.

But, How do I determine whether that particular exe - for which I know the exact name - is running or not?

Is there a way to programatically achieve this?

Regards & thanks in advance,
Chaitu

 

[chaitu]

I myself found the answer,
Thanks,

I am attaching the code for it might be useful...

<Code>
#include &quot;tlhelp32.h&quot;

BOOL bRet;
PROCESSENTRY32 eProcess;

HANDLE hProcessEnumerator = CreateToolhelp32Snapshot(TH32CS_SNAPPROCESS, 0);

bRet = Process32First(hProcessEnumerator, &eProcess);

do
{
/* Do what you want, by accessing eProcess*/
bRet = Process32Next(hProcessEnumerator, &eProcess);
}while(bRet);

</Code>

 

[PhilMunro]

This will only work under 95/98, but not NT/2000 . See &quot;HOWTO: Enumerate Applications in Win32&quot; in MSDN.