How to find if a process has active UI ?

dharani

Hi all Our application has to kill OUTLOOK.exe if it runs only in background . Assuming we already have process id and handle to kill it with TerminateProcess , how to find if this outlook.exe has UI active or not ?? Any APIs please ...

redindian

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Use EnumWindows to enumerate all open windows. Use GetWindowThreadProcessID on the window handle to get the process Id of the window. Compare with the process Id you already have. Now you can use TerminateProcess (or a better way) to kill outlook.

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dharani

I am already aware of how to enumerate the processes and kill it . What I want to know is : To find if a process is running in background or running with UI ....

redindian

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EnumWindows

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Stuart Dootson

dharani wrote:

runs only in background

Define what you mean by that.

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David Crow

dharani wrote:

What I want to know is : To find if a process is running in background or running with UI ....

You may want to check out functions like IsWindowVisible(), IsWindowIconic(), SendMessageTimeout(hWnd, WM_NULL, ...), and GetForegroundWindow().

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