vb6 - How to open/switch to a process in task manager -

i tried google-ing results ending process... want switch vb application process...

i'm using appactivate program title name not unique i'm getting error... can use * sign?

appactivate statement

activates application window.

syntax

appactivate title[, wait] 

the appactivate statement syntax has these named arguments:

part description title required. string expression specifying title in title bar of application window want activate. the task id returned shell function can used in place of title activate application.

use wmi pid or toolhelper library.

  private declare function process32next lib "kernel32" (byval hsnapshot long, lppe processentry32) long   private declare function closehandle lib "kernel32.dll" (byval handle long) long   private declare function process32first lib "kernel32" (byval hsnapshot long, lppe processentry32) long  private declare function createtoolhelp32snapshot lib "kernel32" (byval dwflags long, byval th32processid long) long   private declare function getversionexa lib "kernel32" _      (lpversioninformation osversioninfo) integer      private type processentry32      dwsize long      cntusage long      th32processid long           ' process      th32defaultheapid long      th32moduleid long            ' associated exe      cntthreads long      th32parentprocessid long     ' process's parent process      pcpriclassbase long          ' base priority of process threads      dwflags long      szexefile string * 260 ' max_path   end type    private type osversioninfo      dwosversioninfosize long      dwmajorversion long      dwminorversion long      dwbuildnumber long      dwplatformid long           '1 = windows 95 2 = windows nt      szcsdversion string * 128   end type     private const process_query_information = 1024    private const process_vm_read = 16    private const max_path = 260    private const standard_rights_required = &hf0000    private const synchronize = &h100000   'standard_rights_required or synchronize or &hfff    private const process_all_access = &h1f0fff    private const th32cs_snapprocess = &h2&    private const hnull = 0    private const gw_child = 5    private const gw_hwndnext = 2  sub mnuinsertprocesslist_click()          dim f long, sname string, plist string, ret long          dim hsnap long, proc processentry32          hsnap = createtoolhelp32snapshot(th32cs_snapprocess, 0)          if hsnap = hnull exit sub          proc.dwsize = lenb(proc)          ' iterate through processes          txtnote.seltext = "pid:int" & vbtab & "parentpid:int" & vbtab & "exename:string" & vbcrlf          f = process32first(hsnap, proc)                          sname = strztostr(proc.szexefile)                 txtnote.seltext = proc.th32processid                 txtnote.seltext = vbtab                 txtnote.seltext = proc.th32parentprocessid                 txtnote.seltext = vbtab                  txtnote.seltext = sname                 txtnote.seltext = vbcrlf                 f = process32next(hsnap, proc)          loop while f = 1         ret = closehandle(hsnap)         if ret = 0 msgbox err.lastdllerror  end sub