Changing the process name at run time (C ++)

Question

Is it possible to change the name (the one that appears in the "processes" section of the task manager) at run time in win32? I want the program to be able to change its own name, and not another program. Help would be appreciated, preferably in C ++. And dispel any thoughts about viruses, no, this is not a virus, yes, I know what I'm doing, this is for my own use.

Answer 1

I know that you are asking for Win32, but with most * nixes this can be done simply by changing argv [0]

Answer 2

I would like to introduce what, in my opinion, is a good reason for changing the process name at runtime:

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Answer 3

I found code for this in VB. I believe that it will not be too difficult to convert it to C ++ code.

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And I agree with Peter Ruderman

This is not what you should do.