Question

I am using the Win Api function GetModuleBaseName to retrieve the process name from the current window (my application is 32 bits running on Win7 64 bits):

HWND Handle = GetForegroundWindow();
DWORD lpdwProcessId;
HANDLE PID; 

WCHAR ProcessName[1024];
GetWindowThreadProcessId(Handle,&lpdwProcessId);
PID=OpenProcess(PROCESS_ALL_ACCESS,false,lpdwProcessId);
if (PID)
{
    if(GetModuleBaseName(PID,NULL,ProcessName,sizeof ProcessName) == 0) {
        wcscpy(ProcessName,  L"??");
        DWORD er = GetLastError();
        printf("error code: %i\n", GetLastError());
    }
}
else
{
    wcscpy(ProcessName,  L"??");
} 

This code is working fine all 32 bits programs but not with 64 bits programs such as MSPaint where the last error returned is

error 299 : ERROR_PARTIAL_COPY : "Only part of a ReadProcessMemory or
WriteProcessMemory request was completed."

MSDN doesn’t document why this particular error may happen. I read somewhere that this error can happen for the EnumProcessModulesEx due to problem between 32 and 64 bits programs, but no such thing is mentionned for GetModuleBaseName.
Is there a way to know where this is comming from and how to fix it?

thanks

Answer 1

Documentation for GetModuleBaseName suggests that calling GetProcessImageFileName or QueryFullProcessImageName will be more reliable than calling GetModuleBaseName with a NULL module handle.