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CeccoCQ
CeccoCQ

Reputation: 3754

List opened files

I've read some posts about my issue, but I haven't find a right solution. I would have a complete list of current files in use, for example:

*.mp3 files opened by Windows Media Player
*.txt files opened by Notepad.exe
*.avi files opened by VLC etc...

With FileWatcher system I can get files that are created/modified/updated or deleted, but not opened.

How I can do it?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 953

Answers (3)

Alistair Evans
Alistair Evans

Reputation: 36473

I'd suggest the simplest method would be to use the Handle command-line tool from the same people as Process Explorer.

You could maybe invoke the process from your code, and then parse the output, which is basically just a big list of open files (and registry entries) divided into sections with the process that opened the file as the header.

I think that under the hood Handle uses the NT Object Manager API, so that may be worth looking into if you need to do the whole thing yourself.

Upvotes: 0

Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard

Reputation: 66389

Most you can achieve with simple code is iterate over all Processes and read their Title - most programs will put the current file in use inside their title e.g. Notepad will have window title of "TextFile.txt - Notepad".

If you like I can pull together some quick example.

To achieve exactly what you want though, you'll have to "hook" into the processes in some low level way and see their internals - Frédéric Hamidi reply pretty much covers this.

Upvotes: 0

Frédéric Hamidi
Frédéric Hamidi

Reputation: 262939

You can use the Process Explorer tool from Sysinternals to obtain that information, but I don't think you can easily do the same by code (short of reimplementing Process Explorer itself).

Upvotes: 2

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