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How to get the name of an application with VBScript - 6/27/2008 11:56:27 AM   
  Goldencat

 

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Status: offline 		I'm having a problem with getting the name of running applications.  I can get the name of the process with WMI and Win32_Process, but I can't figure out any way to access the actual name of the application (such as "Mozilla Firefox" instead of the process name "firefox.exe").  If anyone knows how to do this, please help me out.
 
 
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RE: How to get the name of an application with VBScript - 6/27/2008 1:49:30 PM   
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Status: offline 		In the case of your example, firefox.exe is both the program name and process name. Mozilla Firefox is maybe the common name used by people, and definately the window title, but it's not the actual program name. So is it the Window title you are looking for?

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RE: How to get the name of an application with VBScript - 6/27/2008 3:40:31 PM   
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Status: offline 		Yeah, I mean the name that you get when you bring up the task manager and look under the 'Applications' tab.

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RE: How to get the name of an application with VBScript - 6/27/2008 4:08:29 PM   
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Status: offline 		If you have Microsoft Word...you can see the name as it appears in the "applications" tab of task manager

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RE: How to get the name of an application with VBScript - 6/29/2008 8:48:54 AM   
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Status: offline 		Looked all over, I think you might have to use Perl for this.

http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/search?query=win32%3A%3Aguitest&mode=dist


      

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RE: How to get the name of an application with VBScript - 6/30/2008 12:37:00 AM   
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Status: offline 		Like DM said, if you have Word you can do this

Set Word = CreateObject("word.application")
For Each x In Word.Tasks
  wscript.echo x.Name
Next
Word.Quit
Set Word = Nothing

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RE: How to get the name of an application with VBScript - 7/1/2008 5:15:01 AM   
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Status: offline 		Thanks for the help so far. the Microsoft Word object does get what I'm looking for, but are you sure that there is no object that is built into Windows that can handle this?

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RE: How to get the name of an application with VBScript - 7/1/2008 10:42:11 AM   
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But WMI won’t let you get to this information, and neither will any other scripting object built into the operating system.


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RE: How to get the name of an application with VBScript - 7/2/2008 1:50:34 AM   
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Status: offline 		I almost forgot another way to do it, which is part of XP, but not part of vbscript would be to shell [.RUN|.Exec] "Tasklist /FI ""WINDOWTITLE eq <WindowTitle>"""
You'll get something like this as output.\/ Using .Exec you can pipe that into your script using STDOUT.read

C:\>tasklist /FI "WINDOWTITLE eq VBScript Forum - Mozilla FireFox"

Image Name                   PID Session Name     Session#    Mem Usage
========================= ====== ================ ======== ============
firefox.exe                 3384 Console                 0    121,412 K

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