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aki92
aki92

Reputation: 2284

Finding Opened Applications

I am trying to get the list of opened applications in Windows but ended up getting the list of processes using

tasklist

I want to get the list of applications opened (not all processes) and their process id.

Ex: If a File Copy is going on then I want to know its process id and similarly if something is downloading in Chrome then I want to know the process id of that downloading window.

I am doing this in Python so solution can be anything related to Python or Command Prompt.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1956

Answers (1)

Kobi K
Kobi K

Reputation: 7931

If you want process please refer to this post @Nick Perkins and @hb2pencil gave a very good solution.

To get all opened application titles you can use the code below i am using it also in one of my drivers, it's from this site

There is also another post with similar question here and @nymk gave the solution.

import ctypes

EnumWindows = ctypes.windll.user32.EnumWindows
EnumWindowsProc = ctypes.WINFUNCTYPE(ctypes.c_bool, ctypes.POINTER(ctypes.c_int),     ctypes.POINTER(ctypes.c_int))
GetWindowText = ctypes.windll.user32.GetWindowTextW
GetWindowTextLength = ctypes.windll.user32.GetWindowTextLengthW
IsWindowVisible = ctypes.windll.user32.IsWindowVisible

def foreach_window(hwnd, lParam):

    titles = []

    if IsWindowVisible(hwnd):
        length = GetWindowTextLength(hwnd)
        buff = ctypes.create_unicode_buffer(length + 1)
        GetWindowText(hwnd, buff, length + 1)
        titles.append(buff.value)
        print buff.value

    return titles


def main():

    EnumWindows(EnumWindowsProc(foreach_window), 0)

   #end of main
if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

Upvotes: 3

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