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Make the taskmgr a realtime process!


Francesco

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The operation is really easy: open taskmgr.exe with an hex editor and search for this:

68 80 00 00 00 FF 15 14 11 00 01
and then change it to
68 00 01 00 00 FF 15 14 11 00 01

so finally when taskmgr starts it won't be slowed down by hanged up high priority processes.

Have a nice task killing day :P

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  • 2 weeks later...

Or alternatively you could just create the following icon:

Target:

%SystemRoot%\system32\cmd.exe /C Start "Title" /REALTIME %SystemRoot%\System32\Taskmgr.exe

Start in:

%SystemRoot%\system32

Then, click on [Change Icon] and put this path in the Look for icons in this file:

%SystemRoot%\System32\Taskmgr.exe

And choose your favorite Task Manager Icon.

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After Seeing DarkShadows post, i've been thinking about this and :

The alternative has no sense! To bring up task manager you could use :

A shortcut

The Taskbar Menu

RUN from Start Menu

Ctrl+Alt+Del

Ctrl+Shift+Esc

The first 3 are launched by explorer so making explorer.exe go 100% CPU usage, which has a Normal priority would not improve anything.

Ctrl+Alt+Del is launched by winlogon.exe (I think ?)which runs in High priority

Were left with the last method wich might get Task Manager a Realtime priority this way making this tweak usefull.

I'll do some forther tests, until then, if someone has something to say, reply.

Edited by BlueMe
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Like i said i'll do some more tests in this, so the result is that it doesn't matter, what priority taskmgr has, in most of the cases .. it will still freeze. Thus not helping with anything.

I'm not trying to pick on someone's work but i thought it would be good to know if this tweak/tip makes a difference !

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maybe there many different string in each win os (9x,me,2k,xp,2k3) so if someone have it please share it :D

(i need a string for my win2k)

maybe there many different string in each win os (9x,me,2k,xp,2k3) so if someone have it please share it :D

(i need a string for my win2k)

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