How do you determine the owner of a process

[Ken Soenen]

I can get all the processes on the local machine using "GetProcesses". Now I
need to know the owner of each of these processes. If the Windows Task
Manager could talk, I would ask it.!!
Any help would be appreciated. I still haven't mastered the finer points(if
there are any) of finding something in VB.NET help. Sometimes it takes me
days to find even something simple.

thanks,
ken

 

[Guest]

GetProcesses unfortunately doesn't return that piece of information. Here's
a link to another post that shows how:

http://groups.google.com/group/micr...hich+process+wmi+coad&rnum=1#2a6272a9b7ecd77b

Here's the code translated to VB.NET

Imports System.Management

Module Module1

Class Sample_SelectQuery

Public Shared Sub Main()
Dim selectQuery As SelectQuery = New SelectQuery("Win32_Process")
Dim searcher As ManagementObjectSearcher = New
ManagementObjectSearcher(selectQuery)
For Each proc As ManagementObject In searcher.Get
Console.WriteLine(proc("Name").ToString)
Dim s(1) As String
proc.InvokeMethod("GetOwner", CType(s, Object()))
Console.WriteLine(("User: " & (s(1) + ("\\" + s(0)))))
Next
Console.ReadLine()
End Sub
End Class
End Module


HTH

 

[Ken Soenen]

Scott,
Thanks for the help. For some reason or other it's choking on the
"Imports System.Management" statement. It says: " Namespace or type
'Management' for the Imports 'System.Management' cannot be found." And I
guess since this can't be found, the rest of the program falls apart. Any
ideas??

ken

 

[Guest]

Sorry. You have to go into the Project | Add reference menu, and add a
reference to the System.Management dll.

Scott Swigart - MVP

 

[Ken Soenen]

Thanks. I probably should have known that. It works like a charm!!!!

ken