How do I get an external window's friendly name?

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I know how to get an external window's process name or it's window title.

What I mean with friendly name,. . .

As I type this question, Firefox's title when hovering on it's icon in the taskbar reads: Ask a Question - CodeProject, yet in taskmanager (windows 8) it reads as Firefox(32bit) on the process tab. I am not talking about the process name you find on the details tab (firefox).

Another example:

I have windows explorer open at C:\Program Files\

The window caption is "Program Files"
the process is "explorer"
the friendly name as displayed on the process tab of task manager is: "Windows Explorer"

Posted 4-Oct-14 8:38am

Craig Haywood

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 4-Oct-14 16:07pm

There is not such thing as "window's friendly name? What exactly do you mean?
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Craig Haywood 5-Oct-14 4:21am

Read the question. I think I explained what I mean with friendly name

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 5-Oct-14 12:46pm

Ah... Agree, you did.
Thank you.
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Solution 2

Thanks @CHill60. That put me on the right path.

Posted 4-Oct-14 9:23am

Craig Haywood

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CHill60 · Accepted Answer · 2014-10-04T09:02:00

Solution 1

I think this is what you are after ... if not just respond and I will remove the solution.

http://www.kirsbo.com/Getting_description_from_a_process_in_VB.NET[^]

Posted 4-Oct-14 9:02am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 5-Oct-14 12:47pm

5ed.
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CHill60 6-Oct-14 2:10am

Thank you!