** Feature Requests **
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Hi, redhawk.
I guess you misunderstood me.
This thread was only meant to be an overview of threads that hold feature requests so they can be found easily.
This is why I asked,Feel free, though, to add links to other P.E. feature requests which are not listed, yet.
If we start posting feature requests directly in this thread, I assume it will soon turn into an unreadable endless monster.
Yet, this is just my personal idea.
Apart from this, I agree that it might be helpful to have sticky threads for bug reports as well.
The problems with sticky threads for feature requests and bug reports are- Due to a bug in the forum stoftware, any sticky thread will loose its sticky property as soon as a normal user adds a message. Only moderators can assign the sticky property again thus moving it back to the top of the thread list.
- Those 2 sticky threads should exist for each Sysinternals utility, so there would be quite a number of these sticky threads.
- Someone would have to make sure double feature requests are somehow joined.
- Someone would have to evaluate the bug reports and take out those that are actually handling errors.
- Forum software products do not offer a really professional approach to keeping track of feature requests and bugs. Doing it manually for all Sysinternals utilities might easily be a fulltime job, but none of the moderators works fulltime for this forum, we are all doing it in our spare time.
Hm, so after all maybe creating this sticky thread was not such a good idea.
Karl -
Thanks, Kyle.
The feature request is already in the list in the first message:
RFE: Type >1 char selects better matches.
Compare to the thread you point us to: Keyboard selection annoyance in v10, please.
Different words, same complaint about lost feature, same request to re-introduce it.
Karl -
Feature request:
If the lower pane is disabled, don't try to load any handle or DLL information upon starting up. This would allow Process Explorer to run even when system handles have grown to excessive numbers due to a handle leak. Maybe there could also be a checkmark under Options to disable all handle processing. This would make process explorer a lot more stable in the event of a system handle leak.
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Hi, Dimitris.
No problem whatsoever. It only shows that the list may not be too well-structured.Else you would have noticed that your wish had been requested before.
Karl -
Anything wrong with using the same keyboard shortcuts while in process tree mode?
Karl -
Bring back the ability to choose which search engine to use!! Until then I will have to keep using version 10.2!
Thank you for the tip about the most recent version containing this feature! I was dismayed when Process Explorer itself revealed the string http://search.msn.com hard coded into its own executable.
BTW what are the other differences between 10.2 and 10.21?
Thanks,
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Bring back the ability to choose which search engine to use!! Until then I will have to keep using version 10.2!Thank you for the tip about the most recent version containing this feature! I was dismayed when Process Explorer itself revealed the string http://search.msn.com hard coded into its own executable.
Not likely to happen. Microsoft is steadfast in it's refusal to accommodate competing technologies, and now that it owns Sysinternals, you'll see this with it's new toys.
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Didn't I read somewhere that future utilities / releases would respect the Search Provider configured in IE7, if IE7 is found on the system?Theoretically
, one could also use a hex editor on procexp.exe...
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Hi HerbCSO,Are you sure you don't have "Show New Processes" checked in the View menu?
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It's understandable - the name of the option doesn't necessarily suggest that the view will be scrolled to display the new process. The help file is a bit clearer, however:Show New Processes: when enabled Process Explorer scrolls the Process view to bring into view new processes.
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Hi Scott,You may be interested to find PE's "Hide When Minimized" feature in the Options menu.
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Howdy!
Thanks for the reply... yeah, I saw 'Hide when Minimized' - but I don't want to minimize. I have a dual-monitor system, so I run main apps on the left (center of my desk), and PE (plus other monitors) on the right monitor. Makes network maintenance a lot easier to be able to know everything going on around here with a glance. :-)
Winamp has exactly what I'd LOVE to see in PE, I'll include a pic...
Cheerio!
Mr.Scott
- Edited by Simon UltimateMicrosoft employee, Administrator Wednesday, June 6, 2018 2:58 AM moderation
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Thanks for the tip, though I dare say my column sorting skillz are quite mad.
I was suggesting these features because I use PE often on Win 2003 Servers that are often very busy, so it would be helpful to have filter ability to weed out the noise and make it easier to see just what I want.
Although your comment about PE highlighting the current user gives me a thought. If I were to do a "Run as..." with PE I could not only get highlighting, but also simply uncheck the "show processes for all users" option. But does Windows have an equivalent to the unix "su" or "sudo" commands? Even as Administrator, when you want to do a "run as..." you need to know the user's password. An su equivalent would allow me to run something as another user without knowing their password. -
Hi all sysinternals fans!
I have to mention a feature i wish i had into PE context menu:
What i want is an item to open the folder of the image path of the binary in the explorer, just like the "open the folder" item of the explorer we can see with the find files wizard. What do you think of this? :)regards -
Hi, x-faktor.an item to open the folder of the image path of the binary in the explorerSounds like a reasonable request. - Support++
Sven -
...it would be very helpful to have a Properties Pane that exposes the COM registration for the file (from HKCR), and provides a button to Unregister the binary.
Second that.
GL -
The latest release(11.31) finally shows physical memory, why not earlier?Has this feature not been added in P.E. v11.30, more than 20 days ago?!
Sven -
(Sorry if this is against forum rules or something)Nothing wrong with answering a question!
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Thank you, wj32, you've made my life easier!!!
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I wondered when someone was going to notice that...
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Hi Frank,
Something along these lines has been suggested previously (can't recall precisely where, but I would not be surprised if it is in one of the 22 pages of posts that comprise this topic).
One thing that may be helpful is to use the Comment field on the process Properties Image tab.It would be much easier to locate new processesAdd the Start Time column and sort by it?modified programsThough I don't see a column for it, the Image tab of each process' properties includes a "Time" field.
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Hi molotov,
thanks for the fast response.
".... suggested previously"
Sorry, I studied just the first post with the summarization.
The idea with the Start Time is nice - but only for the current session. New programs in the autostart will be mixed between all other programs past next reboot.
The idea to hide programs with a known md5-hash is better than using the Time field. Viruses don't change timestamps. There must not be a visible column for the hash. I do not want to see it. Just an internal list:
program, md5-hash, hidden-flag
That would keep the PE table much shorter and you would see evil new programs with one view, instead of studying (and remembering- I'm beyond 50) the hole list.
Frank -
I understand the motivation behind the request, and was offering suggestions that may get you at least a bit closer to what you were hoping for, if and until the feature may be implemented...
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I would really like to see the ability to view the processes of remote machines.
I'm not sure what commands/libraries you use to retrieve the processes, but wouldn't this feature be as simple as adding an option to change a command flag? (e.g. if you're using the TaskList.exe command, just add the /S flag and allow the user to input a remote station).
I could write my own utility that would do this, but I don't really want to reinvent the wheel...especially with such an awesome utility like Process Explorer already out there.
Thanks!
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Hi molotov,
Thanks for your quick reply and for filling me in. :-) I kind of figured that it would've been too good to be true for that to be the case (easy as adding some option to some command).
That said, would there possibly be an eta on a feature like this? I understand if not...but it never hurts to ask...
-T
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The Process Start time shown in the left lower corner of Properties Tab of a process should contain also millseconds: e.g 16:10:30.245
Milliseconds would also be great in the Columns
Ciao and thanks
Hermann