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Given a HANDLE (or ProcessID) to process 'A' is it possible on Win32 for an unrelated process 'B' to determine the current working directory of process 'A' ?

+1  A: 

Yes, but it's non-trivial. The only way of which I'm aware is to use CreateRemoteThread to execute GetCurrentDirectory in the context of the target program.

Jerry Coffin
+1  A: 

I thought this may be possible using the same technique you can use to get an external processes command line and there does seem to be a _RTL_USER_PROCESS_PARAMETERS->CurrentDirectoryPath which sounds promising.

(The example doesn't state that the APIs are largely undocumented and that they are not future proof, so YMMV)

Alex K.