how to detect (and kill) if a process is running for *all* users?

[bobics]

I'm using FindProcDLL to detect if a process is running, but it appears it only detects it for the currently logged in user. In some cases this might be okay, but our app may be running with multiple users logged in (i.e. with Fast User Switching in XP).

At the minimum we'd like to detect if our app is running from another user's account. We may also want to kill the other user's process (which I assume should be pretty straightforward once I have the handle).

TIA,
bobics

[kichik]

Have you tried one of the other process detection plug-ins?

[bobics]

It took me some time but here are the results.

Of the plugins/sample scripts I tried, only nsProcess::FindProcess detected another user's process (and I think I picked one implementation out of every bucket). In case it might be helpful to anyone else, here's my sample script:

code:


SetCompressor /solid lzma



!include "nsProcess.nsh"

!include "FindProcess.nsh"



;--- Project Settings --------

OutFile "setup.exe"



Section

SectionEnd



Function .onInit

	FindProcDLL::FindProc "firefox.exe"

	MessageBox MB_OK "FindProcDLL::FindProc = $R0 (found=1)"

	

	${nsProcess::FindProcess} "firefox.exe" $0

	MessageBox MB_OK "nsProcess::FindProcess = $0 (found=0)"

	

	Processes::FindProcess "firefox.exe"

	MessageBox MB_OK "Processes::FindProcess = $R0 (found=1)"

	;Call listProcesses



	FindWindow $0 "MozillaUIWindowClass" ""

	MessageBox MB_OK "FindWindow = $0 (found<>0)"

	

	${FindProcess} "firefox.exe" $0

	MessageBox MB_OK "FindProcess = $0 (found=1)"

	

	;I think there's a bug in fct, it just kills the process

	fct::fct /MSGONLY /QUESTION "Terminate?" /WC "MozillaUIWindowClass" /WTP "Firefox"

	

	abort

FunctionEnd