Task Manager Extension

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Overview

This is an extension for the Windows Task Manager (NT/2000). The features are the following:

• Show Application icons in Processes list (if available)
• Use different color for services
• Find a used file by any process. (Use * as file name for showing every used file)
  (The search is a full text search, so for example you can use the extension only) 
• Find a used module by any process
  (The search is a full text search, so for example you can search for "kernel") 
• Show Process ID in Applications tab
• Use different color for processes if the CPU usage reaches a given limit ( 25%, 50%, 75% )
• Query list of every files, handles, modules, windows used by a given process
• Close a used file (you can unlock an exclusively opened file, so you can delete it)
• Unload a used module (so you can delete it)
• You can kill services too
• Fast end process. Press DEL key!

For best performance you have to be an administrator!

Usage

Copy the TaskManagerEx.exe and TaskManagerEx.Dll to a directory and then execute TaskManagerEx.exe. This executable will hook every instance of Task Manager. If you want to start TaskManagerEx.exe automatically, create a shortcut in the Startup folder.

Credits

Thanks to everybody who contributed anything on http://www.codeguru.com. Especially for the List View section! 
System information classes: http://www.codeguru.com/system/ntsysteminfo.shtml.
Remote module load/unload: http://www.codeguru.com/dll/LoadDll.shtml

Warning

If you close or unload any file/handle from a process, it can crash.

Known bugs

• Sometimes TaskManager.exe crashes after start. Start it again!
• If you query used files on NT4, the Messenger service brings up a dialog. I don't know why :)

Bug fixes

• Set priority sub menu fix 3/26/2001
• Internationalization fix (Using Taskmgr caption from resources) . Thanks Dominique Faure! 3/30/2001

Downloads

Download source code - 55 KB
Download executables - 113 KB