C# - Detect If Another Process Is Started As "Run As Administrator"
Mar 29, 2011
Our application needs to communicate with another program through a COM interface. The interface will not work if the other program is started with "Run as Administrator". Would like to detect if this other process is in this state and warn the user.
Me.AcceptButton = ExecuteButton MyProcess = New Process With MyProcess.StartInfo
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When the app is finished it displays an "OK" message box. How can I detect the message box and then how can I trigger an equivalent OK click in the app?
I have a custom button in IE8 which starts up my program. Now what I wanted to do, was pass an arguement such as: 'myprogram.exe /ie'
From the IE8 button, and well my program will do rest from there. Now my program adds the button just fine, shows up fine, all that works. But each time i'd add an argument after my application path, IE8 would say it can't find the program. If you want to test this out, goto run, type in gpedit.msc, then 'User Configuration'->'Windows Settings'->'Internet Explorer Maintenance'->'Browser User Interface', and double click on 'Browser Toolbar Customizations'. And in the small window that pops up, is an option for adding custom buttons to IE. I was using this for testing purposes, since it was faster to edit a button here than in my program. When you add a button you choose the executable to link it to. But if you add any arguments after it, IE will simply not be able to find the program. Even if that same command works when you type it from 'run'.
So, now my question is, since apperntly you can't have any arguments in the button, is it possible to detect what executable starts your program? For instance, detect if iexplore.exe started up my program?
I am trying to create an app that will perform actions on specific times (much like the Windows Task Scheduler). I am currently using Process.Start() to lunch the file (or exe) required by the task. I am initiating a process by calling a file (an .mp3) and the process starts WMP (since it is the default application), so far so good. Now I wan't to kill that process. I know that it is normal behavior for the Process.Start(string, string) to return nothing (null in C#) in this case. So I am asking how can i close WMP when I called it through Process.Start(string, string)??
I want to know if there is a way to get each new process (what has been started) in a real-time manner (instantly). I tried until now something like:
1. Getting the number of opened/running processes
2. If the number is different from the previous check then the program is scanning each process (what is running) using a timer, each process has assigned its "pid" (using array) -- so if there is a new "pid" the process will be scanned -- else the process will be skipped. (scanning: getting its "object" path and creating a md5 signature etc.) This is working but is inefficient(very)...
whenever i start my app and let it start a process, and the process dies or gets killed my app goes down too. but this only occurs when i'm debugging, not when i run the program
I have searched the www but so far cannot see how to do it. Perhaps via a try/catch statement?
How can I test if a process can be started in vb before actually starting it, e.g. when I use process.start("<name>.exe") ....
but before doing that I would like to make sure that it will be callable.. is this possible at all? maybe by using some kind of My.Computer .FileSystem .FileExists ("<name>.exe") statement?
Background: I have 2 Apps. One spawns the other as a 2nd process. Both need Adminstrator rights to run.The below code (which spawns the 2nd app from the 1st) works just fine from my released Application (when I right click the 1st app icon and start as Administrator).
Problem is, from within the VB Express environment it does not. The 2nd app starts, then complains about Access Rights.Can I start a process with Administrator rights in Windows 7 from within the environment?
I run a program based on a timer in VB.NET, and it executes just fine when I don't try to retrieve the output. For some reason, though, I constantly get an error on the Dim myOutput line... Can anyone spot my error? output is a string.Error: StandardOut has not been redirected or the process hasn't started yet.
Dim fetch As New System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo("C:/perlprog.pl") fetch.WindowStyle = ProcessWindowStyle.Hidden Dim executable As System.Diagnostics.Process
first of all, I'm not 100% sure this is the right forum to post this, as there seems ot be tones and tones of forum branches here, so if I'm not in the right location, i'm creating an IDE for a proamming language and I need a way to monitor the physical memmory usage of a process tree. I'm not talking about the WorkngSet64 of a process, but the WorkingSet64 of the process and any child process started by it.
I'm trying to get a process (wmplayer) started with a maximised main window. I've tried:
Dim VidPROC As System.Diagnostics.Process Dim startInfo As New ProcessStartInfo("wmplayer", "C:MyVideo.mpg") startInfo.WindowStyle = ProcessWindowStyle.Maximized VidPROC = Process.Start(startInfo)
but the process starts with a standard, small empty mplayer window, NOT maximised. (If I change .Maximised to .Hidden it starts hidden, but seems to ignore it when set to .Maximised).
Dim ProcessList() As Process = Process.GetProcessesIf ProcessList.Length > 0 Then Dim ProcessListIdx As Integer For ProcessListIdx = 0 To ProcessList.Length - 1 If Not ProcessList(ProcessListIdx).HasExited Then <-- this line throws the error With
I'm using excel via interop in application.Sometimes users kill application that created excel instance and that results in excel instance sitting in memory without any chance of disposing it.First I tried to tackle this using ROT(running object table) looks like not all instances of excel are registered there.Than I tried to somehow mark excel process after it is started via interop.[code]This works as long as excel is visible but in my case excel window is invisible.All I need is to somehow mark process that started via automation with the parent PID, so that later I can kill it if parent does not exist.
i have wanna rebuild some protect for gaming programs..i need help in vb.net..when i run programs need know "how detected new programs?" and "how to detected malcious programs so my program not kill good programs?" [code]after using this got crash on programs and closing my project
i currently have a project that needs to edit a few files in the startuppath folder. on a non administrator o.s., if my app. is installed in ( c:program filesmy crappy little app ), i cannot write to those files. in win7, it does not even ask for administrator approval, just the option to save to my documents.. this can be quite a hassle to work with, specially on closing the app, since i have quite a few files that need to be updated.
find a way to detect if a process has exited and then restart it. The problem is that I have multiple process' of the same name and exe. finding a way to id each process and detect if that specific process has exited then restart it.
I am working on a .NET console app which needs to clean up resources on exit. The problem I'm running into is that I don't get any notification if the cmd parent is closed via the console window [X], via Task Manager/Process Explorer or programmatically with WM_CLOSE. I can live with not being able to handle Kill Process from Task Mgr. or ProcExp. WM_CLOSE of the parent console is the most likely way that this application will be closed before it's finished processing.
Here are the events I've tried to register for so far: AppDomain.CurrentDomain.ProcessExit += CurrentDomainProcessExit; AppDomain.CurrentDomain.UnhandledException += CurrentDomainUnhandledException; Console.CancelKeyPress += ConsoleCancelKeyPress; Application.ApplicationExit += ApplicationApplicationExit; [Code] .....
These events fire properly when I send a CTRL+C from the console or the application finishes uninterrupted. But none of them fire when the parent app (cmd console) is closed. (The parent/grandparent processes aren't CLR so I'm not sure I would ever receive those Disposed/Exited events. Those are just shots in the dark.) I've looked at some pInvoke stuff but I would rather not go down that road if .NET is an option. Is there a way to detect and handle a shutdown in these situations? I am open to any .NET, pInvoke/Win32/C/C++ solution. (Basically any way it can be done on the Windows platform.). I'm still working with .NET 2.0 so I can't use anything introduced in .NET 3.0+
trying to detect the process, if it is not running, then only run the process, but it still runs the process eventhough the process is still running :(
For Each Proc As Process In Process.GetProcesses() Dim strProc As String = Proc.ProcessName & ".exe" If Not strProc = "MemberSyncFBtoSQL.exe" Then
I have searched everywhere, and have not found an answer. I would like to know how to enable your form to detect if a process is started. Something like this:
If Process.Start("Process.exe") Then MsgBox("Process is running") Else MsgBox("Process is not running") End If
I have written a windows service that is meant to launch a notepad when a specific action happens. The problem i have is that even though the service launches notepad, the actual notepad it self is NOT visible. I know that it has been launced because i can see the process in the task manager. By the way the process is listed as a SYSTEM process rather than a process under my user name (i believe that is because my process is a "LocalSystem" one).
I have an update app, which can be updated itself by another update app (so, the second app is an updater of the main updater). Both apps must have administrator permissions because of writing in the Program Files folder. Is it possible that when the main updater is running (under administrator rights) it can use Shell() to let the second updater run with administrator rights without a UAC confirm dialog popping up again?
i made one form database app and make it full trust app then i run it on non administrator user and when i try to save data it gives me exception but works very well on administrator user !!can i make the app works well on non administrator user?