Goal: I want to monitor notepad.exe and restart it whenever it terminates. My program should, starts notepad process using ShellExecuteEx registers the started process with RegisterWaitForSingleOb...

I have a nodejs project on my windows machine. Where upon attempting to run the project this error appears involving bcrypt and win32. [nodemon] 2.0.2 [nodemon] to restart at any time, enter rs [...

The error I'm getting: Windows Script Host access is disabled on this machine. Contact your administrator for details. From many websites you can find that making a file named: ["Enabled&quot...

I have a vs project which wouldn't compile once I upgraded to visual studio 2012. Its a win32 dll project and it complains about the def file. This is the def file, LIBRARY test.dll VERSION 3.1.4...

My Visual Studio crashes randomly. Event Viewer shows the following error Faulting application name: devenv.exe, version: 12.0.40629.0, time stamp: 0x5590c8a4 Faulting module name: KERNELBA...

Is there a way to call CreateProcess such that killing the parent process automatically kills the child process? Perhaps using Create Process Flags? Edit The solution is to create a job object, p...

I have created a windows executable that serves as a simulaator for some embedded device (all the business logic is exactly the same as on original device and only HW related stuff is stubbed). Th...

I use an approach similar to http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/516431/Baktun-Shell-Hosting-WPF-Child-Windows-in-Another to host WPF applications (plugins) in another process via the AddInHost (de...

I have a simple program (in C) that create two child process, wait on an inherited pipe each, and put the output in a file. Everything works well, except that after some write/read cycle on the tw...

I have a kiosk app and have to disable task manager always to prevent closing the program by users . But some users need the TaskManager to close hanging programs. Any help would be appropriated...

I am trying to find if there is a better way to find all thread ids that belong to the current process. It looks like using CreateToolhelp32Snapshot with TH32CS_SNAPTHREAD and iterating over the th...

I am getting the following error when unlocking a file Arithmetic operation resulted in an overflow System.IntPtr.ToInt32 I suspect it is the following line to pBuffer.ToInt32() : IntPtr iPtr = n...

I have a .NET application which spawns multiple child 'worker processes'. I am using the Windows Job Object API and the JOB_OBJECT_LIMIT_KILL_ON_JOB_CLOSE setting to ensure the child processes alwa...

I am porting my application to windows from unix and I have run into a wall. In my application I need to find time in microseconds (the whole application heavily depends on it due to it being a hig...

I have an install script with Pascal code to determine if the app to be installed is currently running: ; Script generated by the Inno Setup Script Wizard. ; SEE THE DOCUMENTATION FOR DETAILS ON C...

I want to run some save routines when the computer suspends. Therefore I use the OnPowerChange-Event to detect when it suspends and resumes. Unfortunately me save routine needs 3-5 seconds to execu...

Currently I'm doing this in one command prompt require 'win32/process' p = Process.spawn("C:/ruby193/bin/bundle exec rails s") puts p Process.waitpid(p) and then in another require 'win32/proc...

I found many sources to get the cpu usage of each process. in general there are many ways to get the cpu usage of process . percentprocessortime from win32_perfformatteddata_perfproc_process per...

I have 2 processes (A, B) sharing the same mutex (using WaitForSingleObject / ReleaseMutex calls). Everything works fine, but when process A crashes, process B is humming along happily. When I rest...

Can anyone provide a Delphi example of code that changes the priority class of a process? I need to get the process by name from the Windows XP Task manager and change its priority using del...

Process Explorer has a nice feature Replace Task Manager I just wondered how Mark Russinovich implements this. What trick is used for implementing this?

I have a Win32 service, that needs to run a .NET executable on service stop (for cleanup reasons). I recently discovered that the cleanup never happens on shutdown, because the process creation get...

For some CPU-bound code using 64-bit variables, it is beneficial to use the Amd64 instruction set rather than x86. How can it be done under 32-bit Windows (e.g. Windows XP SP3)? Of course I assume ...

I'm making a win32 program in C. When you have multiple threads running, and one of the threads is waiting for an event (using WaitForSingleObject() for example), does that thread still get its fu...