Task Explorer - An Advanced Task Manager for hackers

[DavidXanatos]

Most recent build, as of today: https://github.com/DavidXanatos/TaskExplorer/releases/tag/v0.8.5


[0.8.5] - 2019-09-01

This release focuses on bug fixing and usability improvements. An other major change is the use of the own xprocesshacker.sys driver by default, this is required as the original kprocesshacker.sys comes with a DRM that locks some functionality away from tools which are not signed by the process hacker team. With an own driver we can again mess with protected processes and read any memory location.

The used leaked signing certificate does not seam to raise to many read flags eider, virus total:
xprocesshacker.sys 4 false positivs https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/ac2ed32418c81cf97dd6a53e258b4066952affbb768e66ebaaf57643d5f145ec/detection
vs
original kprocesshacker.sys 13 false positivs https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/220a2dcf4d597f9208c0e7fd7057a91e88e118d420f20aac8e75ae3e39a7ac22/detection
In fact we get much less than process hacker does.


Added

• multi graph widget (optional individual CPU plots and individual GPU Node plots)
• plot background/text/grid colirs can now be changed
• added close (WM_CLOSE) and quit command (WM_QUIT)
• added option for rates/deltas and cpu/gpu usage to show an empty string instead of '0'
• added option to highlicht the x top resource users per column
• reduced GUI cpu load by 20% by improved issuing of cell updates in the process tree model
• added window title and status columns
• added toolbar option to quickly adjust the refresh rate
• added options to tray menu

Changed

• system plots now set the proper length
• all tool bar drop down buttons have now a default action
• now the xprocesshacker.sys is used by default

Fixed

• fixed issues with changing graph length
• fixed bad color contrast of sellected items
• fixed a crash (race condition) when closing
• fixed issues with cycle based cpu usage calculation
• fixed major issue with process stat display
• fixed isue with PrivateBytesDelta column
• fixed issue with asynchroniouse username resolution
• fixed cpu time columns showing a wrong value
• fixed broken protection columns DEP and ASLR
• fixed broken file info columns size and modification time