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I am developing a program in which I need to get a list of all open windows be that my computer one or a notepad one or a VLC one.

I can access the processes but the problem is that, explorer has only one open process and if I have two drives open, how do I access them both?

Posted 14-Aug-10 7:58am

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Sharan Basappa · Answer 1 · 2010-08-15T20:36:00

You can enumerate all the windows using the API

BOOL WINAPI EnumWindows(
  __in  WNDENUMPROC lpEnumFunc,
  __in  LPARAM lParam
);

The above function will callback

BOOL CALLBACK EnumWindowsProc(
  __in  HWND hwnd,
  __in  LPARAM lParam
);

function for each Window with all the necessary information that you can use.

You can also use EnumDesktopWindows API