How to get the Executable name of a window

Question

I try to get the name of executable name of all of my launched windows and my problem is that:

I use the method

UINT GetWindowModuleFileName(      
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Answer 1

This is an example of how get the name of executable that creates window, hope it can give you some ideas about:

    while(true)
    {
    Sleep(250);//reduce cpu usage
    CHAR __name[MAX_PATH];//name buffer
    HWND hwnd;//window handle
    DWORD pid;//process pid
    hwnd=FindWindow(NULL,NULL);//find any window
    PROCESSENTRY32 entry;//process structure containing info about processes
    entry.dwSize=sizeof(PROCESSENTRY32);
    HANDLE snapshot=CreateToolhelp32Snapshot(TH32CS_SNAPPROCESS,0);//get processes
    if(hwnd!=0)
    {
        GetWindowThreadProcessId(hwnd,&pid);//get found window pid
    }
    if (Process32First(snapshot,&entry)==TRUE)//start listing processes
    {
        while (Process32Next(snapshot,&entry)==TRUE)
        {
            if (stricmp(entry.szExeFile,"explorer.exe")==0)
            {
                if(pid!=entry.th32ProcessID)//if found window pid is explorers one, skip it
                {
                    HANDLE hProcess=OpenProcess(PROCESS_ALL_ACCESS,FALSE,pid);//open processusing PROCESS_ALL_ACCESS to get handle
                    if(hProcess!=NULL)
                    {
                        GetModuleFileNameEx(hProcess,NULL,__name,MAX_PATH);//get executable path
                        cout<<"Found: "<<__name<

To use GetModuleFileNameEx() you probably will need to set linker settings to link library psapi. Also include psapi.h.