c# change process name dynamically

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Hi All,

I am working on a project where according to my requirement I need to hide a process from task manager.

I asked this question before and got suggestion that it’s not possible. If anyone knows to does this please help?

What I want to do is if I can disguise the process to explorer.exe or some other process name dynamically? Can I change process name dynamically?

If you have any alternate suggestions to solve this requirement please feel free and help with you suggestions.

Thanks

Posted 4-Jun-11 3:18am

sunder.tinwar

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Monjurul Habib · Answer 1 · 2011-06-04T06:51:00

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here you will get a way:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1016823/c-how-can-i-rename-a-process-window-that-i-started[^]

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/s9tkk4a3%28v=vs.71%29.aspx[^]

Posted 4-Jun-11 6:51am

Monjurul Habib

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RaviRanjanKr 4-Jun-11 13:31pm

Nice Link, My 5 :)

Monjurul Habib 4-Jun-11 16:40pm

thank you.

sunder.tinwar 5-Jun-11 4:35am

sorry Monjurul, The solutions what you gave is not at all useful for me.Why should I use that approach when I have this.Text=Application.ProductName;

My requirement is in taskmanager the process name should be visible to x.exe to y.ext

Kim Togo · Answer 2 · 2011-06-04T03:38:00

Solution 1

Change the .exe name to svchost.exe and have it startup with a parameter like
"-k LocalServiceProvider"

Take a look at the Task Manager and see how many svchosts.exe that are running.
Svchost.exe is a generic host process name for services that run from dynamic-link libraries (DLLs).

Posted 4-Jun-11 3:38am

Kim Togo

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sunder.tinwar 4-Jun-11 9:41am

can you give some example by coding c# thats what I am plaining to do but no idea.

Kim Togo 4-Jun-11 15:54pm

There is no code example. Just rename you program .exe file to svchost.exe.

myprogram.exe, rename to svchost.exe.

When the program run, it will list as "svchost.exe" under Task Manager.

sunder.tinwar 5-Jun-11 4:42am

How can i change a exe name while its running?

sunder.tinwar 4-Jun-11 10:00am

hey kim thanks for reply...can you provide some example for reference of any link

sunder.tinwar 5-Jun-11 4:41am

hey kim..what i asked is dynamically change the name. How can i change a exe name while its running?