Subj : Re: Process To : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp From : "Ed Mulroy [TeamB]" Date : Wed Aug 20 2003 07:35 am I assume that this is for a Win32 program. Look at the tool help functions. If you call CreateToolhelp32Snapshot then Process32First and then loop on calls to Process32Next you will be able to see all the processes along with their file names. .. Ed > mike wrote in message > news:3f431953@newsgroups.borland.com... > > is there any API call that will give you a process id if you > know the name of the executable? for example, if you run > an application like microsoft outlook then outlook.exe > appears in the proccess list. is there a way to find the > process id of outlook.exe? .