How to Get the List of Running Applications

Get list of running windows applications using python

You could use powershell instead of WMIC to get the desired list of applications:

import subprocess
cmd = 'powershell "gps | where {$_.MainWindowTitle } | select Description'
proc = subprocess.Popen(cmd, shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
for line in proc.stdout:
    if line.rstrip():
        # only print lines that are not empty
        # decode() is necessary to get rid of the binary string (b')
        # rstrip() to remove `\r\n`
        print(line.decode().rstrip())

Getting an empty table?

Please note that on some systems this results in an empty table as the description seems to be empty. In that case you might want to try a different column, such as ProcessName, resulting in the following command:

cmd = 'powershell "gps | where {$_.MainWindowTitle } | select ProcessName'

Need more columns/information in the output?

If you want to have more information, for example process id or path tidying up the output needs a bit more effort.

import subprocess
cmd = 'powershell "gps | where {$_.MainWindowTitle } | select Description,Id,Path'
proc = subprocess.Popen(cmd, shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
for line in proc.stdout:
    if not line.decode()[0].isspace():
        print(line.decode().rstrip())

The output of cmd is text formatted as a table. Unfortunately it returns more than just the applications we need, so we need to tidy up a bit. All applications that are wanted have an entry in the Description column, thus we just check if the first character is whitespace or not.

This is, what the original table would look like (before the isspace() if clause):

Description                                    Id Path
-----------                                    -- ----
                                              912
                                             9124
                                            11084
Microsoft Office Excel                       1944 C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office12\EXCEL.EXE

How to get list of current running application like Task Manager except applications running in background using JAVA?

You need here the powershell cmdlet called Get-Process.

   Process process = new ProcessBuilder("powershell","\"gps| ? {$_.mainwindowtitle.length -ne 0} | Format-Table -HideTableHeaders  name, ID").start();
        new Thread(() -> {
            Scanner sc = new Scanner(process.getInputStream());
            if (sc.hasNextLine()) sc.nextLine();
            while (sc.hasNextLine()) {
                String line = sc.nextLine();
                System.out.println(line);
            }
        }).start();
    process.waitFor();
    System.out.println("Done");

The output would be like this:

ApplicationFrameHost 15592
chrome               12920
cmd                  21104
debian               13264
Far                   3968
firefox              17240
HxOutlook             4784
idea64               13644
MicrosoftEdge         8024
MicrosoftEdgeCP      13908
MicrosoftEdgeCP      14604
mstsc                24636
notepad++             9956
OUTLOOK               9588
pycharm64             6396
rider64              10468
Teams                11540
Telegram             16760


Done

How to get running applications in windows?

This may help:

Process[] processes = Process.GetProcesses();
foreach(Process p in processes)
{
    if(!String.IsNullOrEmpty(p.MainWindowTitle))
    {
        listBox1.Items.Add(p.MainWindowTitle);
    }
}

How to get list of running applications using PowerShell or VBScript

This should do the trick:

Set Word = CreateObject("Word.Application")
Set Tasks = Word.Tasks
For Each Task in Tasks
   If Task.Visible Then Wscript.Echo Task.Name
Next
Word.Quit

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb212832.aspx

How to get a list of all running GUI apps?

By GUI process I assume you mean processes that have a window attached. What you need is EnumWindows API which with a callback, and within the callback, you could use GetWindowThreadProcessId to get the process id of each window.

Here's an answer that's close enough to get you going: https://stackoverflow.com/a/21767578

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