Monitoring the execution of all process

Question

How I can do it?

I don't want to use a timer + an array of processes (because that's the newbie way that I allways did) I'm looking for something better and improved.

I've tried using ManagementEventWatcher but this code example is not working in Windows 7 (I don't get any error, but is not showing the MsgBoxes):

Public Class Form1

Dim WithEvents startWatch As New System.Management.ManagementEventWatcher(New System.Management.WqlEventQuery("SELECT * FROM Win32_ProcessStartTrace"))
Dim WithEvents stopWatch As New System.Management.ManagementEventWatcher(New System.Management.WqlEventQuery("SELECT * FROM Win32_ProcessStopTrace"))

Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
    AddHandler startWatch.EventArrived, AddressOf startWatch_EventArrived
    AddHandler stopWatch.EventArrived, AddressOf stopWatch_EventArrived
    startWatch.Start()
    stopWatch.Start()
End Sub

Public Sub startWatch_EventArrived(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Management.EventArrivedEventArgs)
    MsgBox("Process started: " & e.NewEvent.Properties("ProcessName").Value)
End Sub

Private Sub stopWatch_EventArrived(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Management.EventArrivedEventArgs)
    MsgBox("Process stopped: " & e.NewEvent.Properties("ProcessName").Value)
End Sub

Private Sub Form1_Closing(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.ComponentModel.CancelEventArgs) Handles MyBase.Closing
    startWatch.Stop()
    stopWatch.Stop()
End Sub

End Class

Answer 1

Management Event Watcher can do what exactly you are looking. Have a look: ManagementEventWatcher.Stop Method

Answer 2

This will get the name and PID of each running process, simply modify this code to get any additional information...

 Dim processList As String
 For Each p As Process In Process.GetProcesses()
    processList = processList & " " & p.SessionId & vbNewLine
 Next()
 MsgBox(processList)