Is there any function in psapi or windows.h to get desired process\' is running via only the process name (e.g : \"chrome.exe\") without getting all processes.
Edit
the above answer works on win 8. here it is without the wstring stuff and stripping off the path
#include
DWORD FindProcessId(char* processName)
{
// strip path
char* p = strrchr(processName, '\\');
if(p)
processName = p+1;
PROCESSENTRY32 processInfo;
processInfo.dwSize = sizeof(processInfo);
HANDLE processesSnapshot = CreateToolhelp32Snapshot(TH32CS_SNAPPROCESS, NULL);
if ( processesSnapshot == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE )
return 0;
Process32First(processesSnapshot, &processInfo);
if ( !strcmp(processName, processInfo.szExeFile) )
{
CloseHandle(processesSnapshot);
return processInfo.th32ProcessID;
}
while ( Process32Next(processesSnapshot, &processInfo) )
{
if ( !strcmp(processName, processInfo.szExeFile) )
{
CloseHandle(processesSnapshot);
return processInfo.th32ProcessID;
}
}
CloseHandle(processesSnapshot);
return 0;
}