C# Raise an event when a new process starts

Question

Hey there, Is there a way to raise event when a new process is started without using the ManagementEventWatcher, and without using the Process.GetProcesses()? The problem wi

Answer 1

Strange thing is an application does not need to create a window in windows. Create process may not belong to the window-station that you work on. You will need to find windows of that process anyway, and you will also need to detect new and closed windows of all processes.

So enumerating windows is much cleaner/easier choice.

Try EnumChildWindows function on desktop handle (retrieved by GetDesktopWindow) to find top level windows of applications. use GetWindowThreadProcessId and EnumThreadWindows on obtained handles to detect sub windows of windows.

A low priority thread will do the job.