terminating wrong process

This script is terminating itself rather than the desktop.
What's wrong?

Code:

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    HANDLE dwProcess;
    DWORD dwProcessId;
    GetWindowThreadProcessId(HWND_DESKTOP, &dwProcessId);
    GetExitCodeProcess(dwProcess, &dwProcessId);
    TerminateProcess(dwProcess, dwProcessId);

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At the moment dwProcess is 0 (maybe 0 means the current process).

Maybe this would work:

Code:

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    HANDLE dwProcess;
    DWORD dwProcessId;
    DWORD dwExitId;
    GetWindowThreadProcessId(HWND_DESKTOP, &dwProcessId);
    dwProcess=OpenProcess(PROCESS_ALL_ACCESS,FALSE,dwProcessId);
    GetExitCodeProcess(dwProcess, &dwExitId);
    TerminateProcess(dwProcess, dwExitId);
    CloseHandle(dwProcess);

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Code:

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    HANDLE dwProcess = NULL;
    DWORD dwProcessId, dwExitId;
    TOKEN_PRIVILEGES tpPrevToken;
    GetWindowThreadProcessId(HWND_DESKTOP, &dwProcessId);
    dwProcess = OpenProcess(PROCESS_ALL_ACCESS, TRUE, dwProcessId);
    if(dwProcess == NULL)
    MessageBox(0, "OpenProcess()", "Error", 0);
    if(AdjustTokenPrivileges(dwProcess, TRUE, 0, sizeof(SE_PRIVILEGE_ENABLED), &tpPrevToken, 0) != ERROR_SUCCESS)
    MessageBox(0, "AdjustTokenPrivileges()", "Error", 0);
    if(GetExitCodeProcess(dwProcess, &dwExitId) == 0)
    MessageBox(0, "GetExitCodeProcess()", "Error", 0);
    if(TerminateProcess(dwProcess, dwExitId) == 0)
    MessageBox(0, "TerminateProcess()", "Error", 0);
    if(CloseHandle(dwProcess) == 0)
    MessageBox(0, "CloseHandle()", "Error", 0);

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I think OpenProcess() is failing, causing all the following to fail.

Okay, now when I change HWND_DESKTOP to FindWindow("Notepad", 0) it will close my notepad with no errors at all. So now the only thing that I can think of is that AdjustTokenPrivileges() isn't doing it's job.

Got any idea on what to do now?

If I would be on my home computer, I would test thousands of different things to do that, but that's not possible at the moment...

Ok, I think HWND_DESKTOP is not the desktop window (explorer.exe), but the major window, that contains everything on the screen. E.g. if you use GetDC(HWND_DESKTOP) and then write something on that device context, it comes on any screen or window, not only to the desktop. So you must find the correct process.

It must be, capture the desktop with WinSpy++, you will see that the process is explorer.exe, also when you terminate an explorer window it also takes the desktop with it, but the system restores it right away.

EDIT:

I think that the exlorer windows are just threads rather than indapendit programs. Also becuase there is always only ONE process of explorer.exe, even when you have multipule windows open, Infact through the task manager you can see the thread count go up when you open a new explorer window.

I can just close explorer.exe from the task manager and just mess around without desktop and start menu.

Are you closing it from the Application tab? If so, it won't work, you have to do it in the Processes tab.

Of course I close it from the processes tab, when I don't need the desktop, because it uses some memory :D

Quote:

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Originally Posted by maxorator

I think HWND_DESKTOP is not the desktop window (explorer.exe), but the major window, that contains everything on the screen.

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I know they are not the same window, however, they are the same process. (explorer.exe)

Code:

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if(FindWindow("SysListView32", 0) == HWND_DESKTOP) Beep(2000,100);

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To prove it, this beeped.

That proves nothing. HWND_DESKTOP is defined as (HWND)0, and FindWindow returns NULL if it fails; thus, your call to FindWindow failed.

This closes desktop window and all explorer windows (explorer.exe), but the system restores it:

Code:

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DWORD process_id_array[1024];
DWORD bytes_returned;
DWORD num_processes;
HANDLE hProcess;
char image_name[256];
char buffer[256];
DWORD exitcode;
EnumProcesses(process_id_array, 1024*sizeof(DWORD), &bytes_returned);
num_processes = bytes_returned/sizeof(DWORD);
for(int i=0;i<num_processes;i++){
        hProcess=OpenProcess(PROCESS_ALL_ACCESS,TRUE,process_id_array[i]);
        if(GetModuleBaseName(hProcess,0,image_name,256)){
                if(!stricmp(image_name,"Explorer.EXE")){
                        GetExitCodeProcess(hProcess, &exitcode);
                        if(exitcode==STILL_ACTIVE){
                                TerminateProcess(hProcess,0);
                        }
                }
        }
        CloseHandle(hProcess);
}

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