So I am getting crash on startup of the app. Initially got it in 1.2.1, decided to upgrade to see if that helps. Getting it in 1.2.9.
Not crashing when running non-elevated.

Upon opening crashdump the exception is as follows:
Unhandled exception at 0x00007FFEED611F28 in TaskExplorer 29.12.2020 11-02-32,848.dmp: Microsoft C++ exception: krabs::could_not_find_schema at memory location 0x00000001007FE7C0. occurred

Technically I can use it as elevated as long as I do not click the "OK" button in dialog box about it crashing.

When I attached the VS 2017 with debug mode, it shows the error being in ucrtbase.dll!_crt_at_quick_exit() thread
Using continue got through following errors:

Unhandled exception at 0x00007FFEED611F28 in TaskExplorer.exe: Microsoft C++ exception: krabs::could_not_find_schema at memory location 0x000000F7040FEC20.

TaskExplorer.exe has triggered a breakpoint.

Exception thrown at 0x00007FFEED611F28 in TaskExplorer.exe: Microsoft C++ exception: krabs::trace_already_registered at memory location 0x000000F7040FEC20.
Unhandled exception at 0x00007FFEED611F28 in TaskExplorer.exe: Microsoft C++ exception: krabs::trace_already_registered at memory location 0x000000F7040FEC20.

TaskExplorer.exe has triggered a breakpoint.

Exception thrown at 0x00007FFEED611F28 in TaskExplorer.exe: Microsoft C++ exception: krabs::invalid_parameter at memory location 0x000000F7040FEC20.
Unhandled exception at 0x00007FFEED611F28 in TaskExplorer.exe: Microsoft C++ exception: krabs::invalid_parameter at memory location 0x000000F7040FEC20.

TaskExplorer.exe has triggered a breakpoint.

Exception thrown at 0x00007FFEED611F28 in TaskExplorer.exe: Microsoft C++ exception: krabs::need_to_be_admin_failure at memory location 0x000000F7040FEC20.
Unhandled exception at 0x00007FFEED611F28 in TaskExplorer.exe: Microsoft C++ exception: krabs::need_to_be_admin_failure at memory location 0x000000F7040FEC20.

TaskExplorer.exe has triggered a breakpoint.

Exception thrown at 0x00007FFED42216E9 (vcruntime140.dll) in TaskExplorer.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation writing location 0x0000000000000000.

Stacktrace:

TaskExplorer.exe!00007ff79c49fb9b() Unknown
TaskExplorer.exe!00007ff79c4a02ee() Unknown
TaskExplorer.exe!00007ff79c49a548() Unknown
TaskExplorer.exe!00007ff79c49c433() Unknown
TaskExplorer.exe!00007ff79c4a0448() Unknown
TaskExplorer.exe!00007ff79c49900e() Unknown
sechost.dll!EtwpDoEventCallbacks�() Unknown
sechost.dll!EtwpLoadEventTrigger�() Unknown
sechost.dll!EtwpProcessRealTimeTraces�() Unknown
sechost.dll!ProcessTrace�() Unknown
TaskExplorer.exe!00007ff79c4a13e1() Unknown
TaskExplorer.exe!00007ff79c49db6e() Unknown
TaskExplorer.exe!00007ff79c49d459() Unknown
ucrtbase.dll!_crt_at_quick_exit�() Unknown
kernel32.dll!BaseThreadInitThunk�() Unknown
ntdll.dll!RtlUserThreadStart() Unknown

One example crashdump file:
TaskExplorer.dmp

1. Run as administrator mode.

2. Enter process name directly, the target process will be selected.

3. Right click the target process, lot of options is disabled.

4. Right the second process, it works.

5. Right the target process, it works.

Windows10 21H1
TaskExplorer1.4

The column sorting asc/desc should be "non case sensitive" for a better overview and handling.

@DavidXanatos

Thanks for your interesting program.

Could you please consider to modify the source to enable multilanguage GUI?
Qith QT should be easy to manage the language files of GUI.

If you want I can help with the Italian translation of the installer.

Thanks.

I did upgrade from 1.2.1
Upon starting as admin I get:
"Failed to decrypt xprocesshacker.sys.rc4 ensure app directory is writable."

Which directory is it talking about? The app directory in "C:\Program Files" is writable, so I have even no idea what other directory to check for writability any more.

1. make the app maximized
2. click the Close [X] button (app will hide in Windows taskbar)
3. double click the app icon in the Windows taskbar
4. the app opens in a maximized window, but the content of the app is not stretched to the full window size, i.e.:

@DavidXanatos

Please cosndier if you can to have a multilanguage installer.

Thanks.

Have tried to install the systeminformer.sys driver on my old Windows 7-Pro-x64 Laptop and received the Error Message: "Unsupported Windows Version".
Testsigning is set to on. Have tried to use several previous versions using the xprocesshacker.sys driver, but unfortunately the result is the same.
Is Windows 7 not supported, respectively, does anyone know where to get a working driver from?
Thanks for your attention.

Because TaskExplorer using Qt as frontend, it could be possible to use the same frontend with different backends.

For Linux existing for example
https://github.com/KrispyCamel4u/SysMonTask
where the backend can be used like the backend of ProcessHacker is used for the TaskExplorer for Windows.

So it could be the first taskmanager like program, which exists on more then one platform.

There is option in process hacker "Include CPU(and other) usage of children in collapsed processes"

Do you plan to implement this as well, or i can somehow get it in TaskExplorer?

Hey DavidXanatos,
I wonder if we could have a checkbox in setting for using process binary name over process description.
Right now on the Process column, we have {{Process Description (Process Binary)}}. I wonder if we could have a switch to change to {{Process Binary (Process Description)}}
As I would like to type out the Process Binary that I am looking for when focus on the Process column.
Right now I have to type out the Process Description like "Windows Powershell" instead of "powershell" to jump to a powershell process.

I am using the Windows Insider Build
Edition Windows 10 Education Insider Preview
Version Dev
Installed on ‎2/‎12/‎2021
OS build 21313.1000
Experience Windows 10 Feature Experience Pack 321.2706.0.3

I can reproduce the problem with or without my antivirus software.
My antivirus software detect services.exe (called by wininit.exe) is trying to modify registry (to add xprocesshacker service) and allowed it.
But it didn't appeared in services or registry.

Process Hacker has a very useful feature: when a new service is created we get a popup with the service name letting us know that a new service has been made and when a service is deleted, Process Hacker lets us know that the service has been deleted through a popup. in my case this comes in handy when running installers as i get an idea of what new services are being installed through a programs installer.

Thank you.

Thanks for the rather powerful replacement of the Windows task manager, and even under the GNU GPL license, I added the program to my site (link).

Additionally, I want to inform you that many well-known antiviruses swear at the installer (link to VirusTotal), but at the same time everyone considers the main executable file to be safe. This can be a problem, so you should consider solving this problem.

Hi,

in the actual Release is not the qwt.dll by side of the binarys.. you should check it...
win7

best regards
Blacky

blackysgate.de

Hi and thanks for all of the work you have done, but given that the last release of TaskExplorer was in Oct 2020 and there now looks to be little activity at the moment - has Task Explorer development paused/stopped as of version 1.2.9?
I'm just curious?

Mike

total/kernel/user cpu time columns are showing priority class instead of actual cpu time

The icons for UWP apps are missing.
The Settings-app (SystemSettings.exe) have the right one.
But if you start the store (WinStoreApp.exe) or the calculator (Calculator.exe), they are without its icon.

Pretty self-explanatory, I'd really like it if a dark theme would be implemented to make using this software easy on the eyes.

Please add gray and/or biege color theme that also do not tire the eyes.
As an example you can take gray theme (except day and night theme) in GIMP
https://www.gimp.org/news/2018/04/17/gimp-2-10-0-rc2-released/gimp-2-10-rc-2-themes.png

Hello,

If possible I'd like to request support to possibly right click on a process and scan VirusTotal for process in question (similar to Process Explorer).

Thanks!

QObject not found. Also I have installed qt.

Severity Code Description Project File Line Suppression State
Error C1083 Cannot open include file: 'QObject': No such file or directory MiscHelpers X:\Code\TaskExplorer\MiscHelpers\stdafx.h 21

@DavidXanatos

Could you pelase enable the multilanguage support for GUI and instraller?

In first step pelase enable multilanguage for GUI using QT and .ts source language file.

OS: Windows 7 Enterprise SP1 64 bit
Task Explorer 0.9.50 (x64)

I have tried to open the app 4 times. Four times it immediately crashed with a message on the attached screenshot. It has created 4 different crash dumps (also attached).

I liked the interface. The info on the processes this app could provide is of interest to me.

Thank you,
[Terri]

I have appended the .dmp with .zip to upload them. Uploading of the .dmp files is not supported.
TaskExplorer 25.09.2019 23-34-23,949.dmp.zip
TaskExplorer 25.09.2019 23-34-39,719.dmp.zip
TaskExplorer 25.09.2019 23-35-13,261.dmp.zip
TaskExplorer 25.09.2019 23-39-28,037.dmp.zip

Can you move into https://github.com/TaskExplorer?

As above, I'm not sure if multi TaskExplorer process is needed.

@DavidXanatos

The program is based on QT SDK.

Pelase consider to enable in TaskExplorer source code the use of multilanguage GUI,

With Qt is quite easy and you can use external .ts/.qm external language file.

I really like the interface, but it open and almost instantly crash, I try to find a way to leave a log, but I could not do it, any way to create a crash dump or a log to send you something to analyze

os: windows 7 sp1 x64 as virtualbox vm
version: latest release binaries, v1.1

1. double click on any non-.net app
2. browse to .NET tab
3. crash after ~1 sec

Fault Module Name: ucrtbase.DLL
Fault Module Version: 10.0.14393.2247
Fault Module Timestamp: 5adc1d0b
Exception Code: 40000015
Exception Offset: 000000000006eacf
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48

i can provide more info if needed.

I want to monitor filename event, but i can't get the old file_path and new file_path in the event, i use taskexplorer but can not found this feature, does taskexplorer support this ? thank you

Up to 1.5.2 neither the installer nor TaskExplorer.exe are signed. Please sign the main binary, at least. While you are at it, you may also sign the release.

Unable to add graph if all graph are removed, the right click menu don't appear.
Release 1.1, windows 10 64bits 1909
Edit:
After restart TaskExplorer All Graph are reappear

Are there plans to re-release this with the code signing driver from the Sandboxie-Plus project?

@DavidXanatos

Instakller of 1.5.1 don't create teh righht icon to run teh application from program group or from icon ond ektop.

This issues because program rn point to

C:\Program Files\Task Explorer\x86\TaskExplrorer\TaskExplorer.exe

that is miisng instead

C:\Program Files\Task Explorer\x64\TaskExplrorer\TaskExplorer.exe

Note: also portable version has "TaskExplorer.exe" missing in x86 subfolder.

I would love to see the icons for TE updated too. 😄

Hi I download zip file
I thought it is normal portable version

But TaskExplorer.ini file creates in c:\Users\XXX\AppData\Local\TaskExplorer
Not in main directory

Hi!

I would like to see button on toolbar that helps to find process of window. It would work similar to Process Explorer's Find Window Process button that lets you click on window and then highlights it in process tree.

Add an option for the shown of the common memory used for heirs and processes when folding the process of the process.
As in Process Hacker [Options-> Advanced-> Include CPU (And Other) USAGE of Children in Collapsed Processes]

I have just downloaded and tested TaskExplorer version 1.3.0 and I noticed a typo:

In Options - Settings - UI Options - General options - Interface language: it should be International English in stead of International Englisch, screen:

As I noticed this typo I felt obliged to report it.

@DavidXanatos

Here you can find always .ts (source) / .qm (compiled) italian language file updated

TS file - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1P7zbzlLxxzt4EAxxDRzwA0BBX9C5xd4B/view?usp=share_link
QM file - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oRXAoKDmsfQjje_7uYIvTwYvfrrdH579/view?usp=share_link

Please use always it to make the test.

Some strings should be translated but are showed as untranslated (Browse/Cancel).
Other strings seems not exist in language file.

"Cancel" is tarnslated but show untranslated.
The items in drop down list seems not in language file.

"Hybrid Shutdown" is not in language file.
I found "Hybid Shutdown"

These items seems not available in language file.

These items seems not available in language file.

As you could see from above image, when I try to navigate to menu bar using key board Alt+T would open the Tool Menu, not the Task as Tool is the last registered by position
I would suggest either change the Short Cut or rename Like Action as Task mostly contain actionable menu.

Sorry for making this issue, since it isn't quite an issue with taskexplorer. I have a dll I inject into a game but when attempting to unload via an external injector or trying to implement a built in self-unloading dll, I crash. I've been trying everything: destroying everything on the heap, detaching hooks, freeing console. But somehow taskexplorer manages to do it with no problem, and I struggle to read the code of this project since it is way too complex for me, can anyone help point me out to the unload dll function?

Hi David,
find your TaskExplorer very helpful and would like to use it more frequently to analyze my PC.

I'm using the Zip Version of the software (v1.2.5) which runs without installation, something I'm prefer.
All settings I'm making to the interface like colums, colors ect. are lost once the program is restarted.
Am I doing something wrong or is there a workaround for this behaviour.
Cheers!
Bruce

TaskExplorer is looking good, great work.

i'd like to suggest an addition to its existing features; an autoruns module. currently to manage autoruns exhaustively a user will turn to Autoruns from sysinternals which is an excellent piece of software. would you consider adding Autoruns like functionality to TaskExplorer ? this way we can manage autorun entries and the processes and services that they start from a single application.
this would be convenient for users since TaskExplorer would be a one stop shop for processes, services and autoruns monitoring and management.

hopefully you'll consider this feature and implement it into future versions of TaskExplorer. keep up the good work on it.

@DavidXanatos

I propsoe to change the installation folder from

Progra,m Files

to

ProgramData

less problem about file/folder rights and more logical to have

ProgramDat\x86

file/fodlers then

Program Files\x86 (32bit ptogtram fiels in program Fiels that are for 64bit application).

Hi, first of all, thank you for this effort. It's great to have "TaskInfo" back!

When I run the app on my 3840x2160 display scaled to 150%, the font alignment looks like this (font is clipped at the bottom):

P.s.: why QT? If this is only a Windows app, would it make sense to use the native Windows GUI?
Another advantage of that would be getting a nicely anti-aliased fonts.

When TaskExplorer is minimized to tray and you click the "X" or "OK" in the System Info window, both, TaskExplorer and SystemInfo are forced closed. It would be nice when the TaskExplorer keeps staying in the tray.

BR and thanks for this wonderful tool.

There are more than 20 of these popped up when I try to unistall.
But the unistallation seems ok afterwards.