Getting process by name on Win XP

[David Sparrman]

Hello,


I have a class that works OK on Windows NT and Windows 2000, but now
when tried on Windows XP Pro it fails miserably.

The call:

win32pdhutil.FindPerformanceAttributesByName(processName)

On NT and W2K the result is a list of PIDs with that name.
On XP the result is this traceback:

File "C:\Python21\win32\lib\win32pdhutil.py", line 49, in
FindPerformanceAttributesByName
  items, instances = win32pdh.EnumObjectItems(None,None,object, -1)
api_error:(-2147481646, 'EnumObjectItems for buffer size', 'No error
message is available')


Python 2.1.2
win32all build 145
(old versions, but this is part of an old release and cannot easily be
upgraded without explicit permission)


Help?