From: Luis Lavena Date: 2011-01-24T01:45:26+09:00 Subject: Re: detection process in windows xp, vista, seven. On Jan 23, 4:48 am, Beusse Beusse wrote: > Hello everyone. > Is it possible to detect such processes in windows xp, vista, seven? > I need to rise to the name of the desired process. > What would the ruby code if possible? tasklist.exe Use tasklist.exe /? to query for specific processes and see stats about it. You can do this: result = `tasklist.exe` And the result of executing that command is stored in result, is now up to you to parse it. It is available since Windows 2000 AFAIK. -- Luis Lavena