Process Description Name

[g3rmanpride21]

I'm currently working with this piece of code:

CheckedListBox1.Items.Clear()
CheckedListBox1.DisplayMember = "ProcessName"
Dim p As Process
For Each p In Process.GetProcesses
CheckedListBox1.Items.Add(p)
Next

But what it is doing is getting the actual .exe name of the process - example "dwm.exe".
I want it to give the file description of the .exe - example instead of "dwm.exe" the description of dwm.exe is "Desktop Window Manager" and I want that file description to show up in the checkedliskbox instead of the .exe name.

Is this possible to get a list of the running process and show the file description name instead of the .exe name?

Please help!

[MrMancunian]

Hi,

I've been searching, but it seems there is no way to find the description of the processes running. It's not a property of Process. As you can't extract the full path of the process running, you also can't use the System.IO.FileI nfo.

I think you have something in mind like the tasklist in the taskmanager. I think that list is created based on all open windows. Like I said, I don't think it can be done, but perhaps there is someone else who knows a solution.

Cheers,

Steven

[g3rmanpride21]

Actually there is a way, I finally figured it out, here is the code if you are curious:

 #
For Each p As Process In Process.GetProcesses
#
            Try
#
                Dim ProcessFile = FileVersionInfo.GetVersionInfo(p.MainModule.FileName)
#
                CheckedListBox1.Items.Add(ProcessFile.FileDescription)
#
            Catch ex As System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception
#
                If ex.Message = "Access is denied" Then
#
                Else
#
                    'error handling
#
                End If
#
            End Try
#
        Next

[gbello97]

i know this is late but how do you kill the process it found? thank you

[Luk3r]

gbello97, you should technically open a new question for your answer, but since the question has been asked we will let the mods move this around if needed:

        For Each p As Process In Process.GetProcesses  'loop through your processes
            Try
                If p.ProcessName.ToLower = "notepad" Then 'if the process name is notepad... then kill it
                    p.Kill() 'kill the process
                End If
            Catch ex As Exception
                'do something here for the exception
            End Try
        Next

Alternatively, you can remove the If..Then statement and kill every running process (not suggested).

You can also simply loop through all processes, searching by process name, and kill each instance of that process:

        For Each p As Process In Process.GetProcessesByName("notepad") 'loop through processes for only a single process name
            p.Kill() 'kill the process
        Next

[gbello97]

The code you gave me is not what I'm looking for. I want the code posted on this thread but I just wanna know how to kill the process if it's found. Thank you

[gbello97]

I want to kill a process by its description.

[Luk3r]

Open a new thread and I'll be more than happy to help :)

[gbello97]

Ok how do I do that haha