EXE friendly descriptions

[coder0xff]

I am writing an application that has functionality similar to task manager. I want to be able to provide friendly names for processes. I've noticed that many Win32 executables, when you open the properties dialog gives a description. I copied explorer.exe to my desktop and renamed it to e.exe. I checked the properties and it still says "Description: Windows Explorer". How can I retrieve that? Is it part of the PE format or a resource, possibly? Thanks for any help.

Brent

[wildfrog]

Information like that is embedded into the executable as a resource (or version information).

Here's MSDN on Version Information (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/winui/winui/windowsuserinterface/resources/versioninformation.asp).

- petter