It is not apparent that there is any way to set the Image Name. There is nothing passed into CreateProcess that seems related to the image name that is shown and there are no API functions that I can see that would allow you to change the image name once created - very likely that is by design!

However if you look at the Applications tab rather than the Processes tab you may find that the names of things are more to your liking. For GUI apps you may find it helps to use wperl.exe rather than perl.exe to run your applications.

This all assumes a context of Windows and, for wperl, ActiveState Perl of course.

DWIM is Perl's answer to Gödel

In reply to Re: Setting Win32 "Image Name" of a Perl Process by GrandFather
in thread Setting Win32 "Image Name" of a Perl Process by cormanaz

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