Thread: Editing the process description of your .exe file (Console Application)

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    Question Editing the process description of your .exe file (Console Application)

    How do you do it? I refer to the process description listed in the "Processes" tab of the Task Manager in Windows 7 specifically, although one that would list in XP or newer OS would be ideal also.

    For example I would like to enter "Mystery Aboard the RMS Novelty" as the description for my process, since it is the name of the program I am writing.

    Hope I have included enough info! Thanks for your time in reading this all.

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    I do not believe so. That would set the title of the console window of your program, correct? I don't want that, if that's the case - and I tried to input it in my code to test, it would not compile, I have tried putting it in different places to see if it was a global conflict of some sort. In the Task Manager Process monitor, you can manually terminate processes, I myself use this frequently so it looks unpolished to me if a process doesn't have an apt description in the "description" section - each process has one, but by default it just repeats the name of the process (ie. mine is matrmsn.exe - an acronym for the aforementioned title - it just repeats this in the description field).

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    VERSIONINFO Resource (Windows)
    It's the FileDescription field.

    In visual studio:
    right-click your project -> Add -> Resource -> Version

    Or if you're using express, which I don't think has the resource editor:
    Add a new file called (project name).rc and open it in a text editor and write the VERSIONINFO structure yourself. See the link for an example.

    If you're using any other compiler you'd have to check it's documentation to find out how to compile resources.

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    Quote Originally Posted by _Mike View Post
    VERSIONINFO Resource (Windows)
    It's the FileDescription field.

    In visual studio:
    right-click your project -> Add -> Resource -> Version

    Or if you're using express, which I don't think has the resource editor:
    Add a new file called (project name).rc and open it in a text editor and write the VERSIONINFO structure yourself. See the link for an example.

    If you're using any other compiler you'd have to check it's documentation to find out how to compile resources.
    If using Visual Studio Express... you can use an external resource editor.
    Of course this also lets you create dialogs, menus, etc. so it's more valuable than just this one instance.

    A fairly good one is here ... ResEdit Resource Editor - free resource editor for Win32

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    Thanks, all. I have Visual Basic 2010 full. I'll test this.

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