le dahut wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using win32pdhutil.FindPerformanceAttributesByName in order to know > if 'explorer.exe' is running or not. Sometimes I get this error : > """ > File "win32pdhutil.pyc", line 97, in FindPerformanceAttributesByName > > File "win32pdhutil.pyc", line 60, in GetPerformanceAttributes > > pywintypes.error: (-2147481643, 'CollectQueryData', 'No error message is > available') > """ > > I've googled for "2147481643" but didn't find interesting pages. Can > someone explain me what's happening ?
Notice that the number is actually negative: -2147481643 which equates to hex 800007d5. Might be worth searching on that. Meanwhile... ... I can't easily think of a situation under Windows when explorer.exe *isn't* running, since it powers thing like your desktop. This code snippet, for example, shows the explorer processes running on my machine with nothing running in the foreground except the Python process itself: <code> import wmi for i in wmi.WMI ().Win32_Process (Name="explorer.exe"): print i.CommandLine # => c:/windows/explorer/exe </code> What are you trying to do with the explorer.exe once you find it? TJG _______________________________________________ Python-win32 mailing list Python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
