Way to get the calling executable?

[thepip3r]

Is there a way to tell whether my exe was kicked off by something else (say... another program??) and if so, what WMI class would I look in or DLL or etc? Pls. help! TIA

[Glyph]

Edit: Never mind, free bump.

I was thinking of something else.

Edited August 18, 2008 by BackStabbed

[PsaltyDS]

Is there a way to tell whether my exe was kicked off by something else (say... another program??) and if so, what WMI class would I look in or DLL or etc? Pls. help! TIA

You want the PPID (Parent Process ID).

You could use _ProcessGetProperties() or code something more limited to your needs.

[thepip3r]

yes Psalty, Win32_Process.ParentProcessID is exactly what I was looking for. tyvm.