How do I check if a running process is a background process? [closed]

Answer 1

It seems like checking the window style did the trick:

public static bool hasWindowStyle(Process p)
{
    IntPtr hnd = p.MainWindowHandle;
    UInt32 WS_DISABLED = 0x8000000;
    int GWL_STYLE = -16;
    bool visible = false;
    if (hnd != IntPtr.Zero)
    {
        UInt32 style = GetWindowLong(hnd, GWL_STYLE);
        visible = ((style & WS_DISABLED) != WS_DISABLED);
    }
    return visible;
}

This returns true if:

• The process doesn't have a Window Style for user input

I've done a little testing and as of now at least this seems to filter out the processes that are running behind the scenes pretty good.

I guess this only work on Windows though.