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08-09-2006, 10:13 PM
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What's new in Version 10.2:
* Vista integrity level and virtualized columns and process properties
* Signed driver for 64-bit Vista for x64 processors
What's new in Version 10.1:
* Vista process cycle counters in process properties and as column
* Service permissions viewing and editing
* Workaround for .NET runtime handle leak
* Many new I/O columns and process properties
* System and per-process I/O bytes history graphs
* I/O history minigraph
* Memory commit history minigraph
* Optional I/O history tray icon
* Windows 64-bit for Itanium support
What's new in Version 10.0:
* The process column is locked on the left side so that it doesn't scroll horizontally out of view
* You can configure custom column selections and save them as easy-to-access column sets
* Image verification option now verifies images in the background
* More refresh intervals
* Runas menu entry in the File menu
* Run as Limited User menu entry in the File menu to run a process without administrative privileges and group membership
* Process menu includes Restart item to kill and then restart a selected process
* Can suspend individual threads on Threads page of Process Properties dialog
* The Find Window target moves Process Explorer's main window to the back to get it out of the way
* Close Window command uses same End Task functionality as Task Manager
* Show New Processes option scrolls display to make new processes visible
* Heuristics to detect more image packers
* User name of account in which Process Explorer is running is shown in the title bar
* Services can be stopped, resumed, and paused from the Services tab of the Process Properties dialog
* The DLLs that host SvcHost processes are listed in the Services tab of the Process Properties dialog
* Services running within a process display on the process' tooltip
* As a parallel to the CPU Usage History column there's now a Private Bytes Usage History column
* The Process view includes columns that show the working set breakdown of the process in shared, shareable and private pages
* New delta private-bytes column to show changes in private virtual memory usage
* Can copy lines from the Process, DLL and Handle views to the clipboard
* Option to show pagefile-backed (unnamed) sections in DLL view
* DLL and handle searching consolidated
* The DLL view includes columns that show the working set contributions in shared, shareable, and private pages
* The DLL a Rundll32 process hosts is shown in its process tooltip
* Packed DLL highlighting in DLL view
* Image signing verification available for DLLs
* Better DLL properties dialog
* Object address shown in Object Properties dialog
* File object share flags column for Handle view
What's new in Version 9.2:
* CPU history in tray icon
* CPU history column
* I/O delta column
* Process security editing
* Reports loaded 32-bit DLLs on Windows 64-bit
* Support for Windows Vista
* Buffer overflow bugfix in v9.25 and higher
What's new in Version 9.1:
* x64 and x86 executables are in a single binary
* x64 kernel and user-mode stack support
* New Verified Company column shows image signer information
* Strings tab in process properties dialog has in-memory image scan option
* Highlighting for images that are packed (have compressed or encrypted code, which is common in malware)
* Window menu on process context menu allows for minmizing, maximizing, and restoring windows
What's new in Version 9.0:
* System information dialog has per-CPU graph option with hyperthreaded and NUMA processor information
* A Users menu duplicates the functionality of Task Manager's Users tab, showing Terminal Services session information and supporting logoff, disconnect, and sending messages
* On XP SP2 and higher the TCP/IP tab displays the thread stack at the time an endpoint was opened
* The tray icon context menu includes the shutdown menu
* Search engine option to use Google or MSN Search
* Object address column is available for the handle view
* Image signatures can be checked on-demand in the process properties dialog
* Process explorer is digitally signed with Sysinternals' Verisign Class 3 signing certificate
What's new in Version 8.61:
* Data Execution Protection (DEP) status on process image tab and as column
* Copy-to-clipboard from process environment variable and strings dialogs
* Can select and copy text strings of process image properties page
* Multi-row tabs on process properties dialog
* Image signing verification on process image properties dialog
* Mini-CPU usage graph on toolbar
* Command-line option for specifying Process Explorer priority
* Manual refresh (F5) forces recheck of job and .NET process status
* Single-clicking on tray icon minimizes and restores main window
What's new in Version 8.50:
* Finder tool for identifying the process that owns a selected window
* Strings listings for process and DLL images
* Google menu item for searching process and DLL information
* Tray tooltip shows highest-CPU consuming process
* Window status column (like Task Manager's Status column on the Applications tab)
* DLL view for System process shows list of loaded device drivers
What's new in Version 8.40:
* TCP/IP process properties page shows active TCP and UDP endpoints
* Display updating code eliminates all flicker
* 64-bit version shows which processes are 64-bit on process properties and adds 64-bit process column
* Additional opacity settings
* Improved symbol support
What's new in Version 8.30:
* Runs in non-admin account
* Treeview functionality to collapse and expand process subtrees
* Can bring process-owned window to the foreground
* System CPU graph shows timestamps and most-active process for any given point
* Per-process graph data tracked even when main window is minimized to tray
* Per-process graph data displays timestamps
* Tray icon has black background
* Can set process CPU affinity
* Process tooltip no longer between mouse pointer and process name
* Ability to add a comment to processes and new comment column
* More system information, including I/O deltas and paging data
* New process columns for I/O delta and page-fault delta
* More process performance information in process properties dialog
* Improved performance
What's new in Version 8.20:
* Can open multiple process properties dialogs simultaneously
* Process properties and thread stack dialogs are resizable
* System information dialog CPU and memory usage graphs like Task Manager
* More performance data on the System Information dialog
* Per-process CPU and memory graph tab in process properties
* Opacity settings
* New tray window context menu options
* More performance information on process properties dialog
* Lock option in shutdown menu
* Reconfigured menu items and highlighting configuration
* New status bar column options
What's new in Version 8.10:
* Status bar information is configurable to show CPU usage, commit charge, # of processes, and more
* Can terminate individual threads
* New Shutdown menu for logging off and shutting down the system
* Only allow one instance option
* Auto-open of lower pane when a find result is clicked
What's new in Version 8.0:
* .NET tab for .NET processes that shows AppDomains and .NET performance counters
* When the .NET Framework is detected a .NET tab on the column selection dialog for adding .NET performance counters
* Option to show only .NET processes
* Option to only show your own processes
* System Information dialog showing the same memory counters as Task Manager (when symbols are configured, also shows maximum paged and nonpaged pool values)
* Better symbol configuration guidance
* Difference highlight duration is configurable
* Tray icon for CPU usage that's yellow when usage is > 70% and red when > 90%
* Minimize-to-tray option
* Highlight color configuration dialog
* Context switch and context-switch delta columns
* Run processes using the system Run dialog from the File menu
* Replace task manager option so that when you run Task Manager Process Explorer runs instead
* Only non-zero CPU usage, .NET counters and context-switch values are displayed to clearly highlight process activity
* Search for DLLs or handles regardless of what mode the lower pane is in
* Correct icons for MMC windows
* Mouse hover over process names and DLL names shows full path of executable or DLL
Other Process Explorer features include:
* Support for full handle viewing on Win9x/Me (with the exception of Registry key handles)
* Process icons
* Service process highlighting
* Process tree display
* Configurable refresh rate
* Refresh highlighting: new entries in the process, handle and DLL views are green, and deleted ones red
* Listview tooltips
* DLL descriptions in the DLL view
* Highlights relocated DLLs
* Jump-to-entry in the find dialog
* Efficient refresh
* Runs on Windows 9x/Me
* Lists all process owners, even on Terminal Server systems
* Moveable columns
* Column selection and a wide variety of configurable process, DLL and handle columns
* Asynchronous updates of all views
* Configurable refresh highlighting effects
* Save function saves process view and current bottom view (handle or DLL)
* Minimize-to-tray option
* Process suspend/resume
* Thread details including stacks
* Fractional CPU usage
* Job object information
* Right-justified numeric columns with numeric formatting
* Mutex properties shows owning thread if mutex is owned
* More information in process properties
* Start time and CPU time process columns
* Option to hide the lower pane
* Kill process tree
* More accurate Registry key names for profile unload debugging
* Extensive help file
* Service descriptions on services tab of service process properties dialog
http://www.sysinternals.com/images/screenshots/ProcessExplorer2.gif
What's new in Version 10.2:
* Vista integrity level and virtualized columns and process properties
* Signed driver for 64-bit Vista for x64 processors
What's new in Version 10.1:
* Vista process cycle counters in process properties and as column
* Service permissions viewing and editing
* Workaround for .NET runtime handle leak
* Many new I/O columns and process properties
* System and per-process I/O bytes history graphs
* I/O history minigraph
* Memory commit history minigraph
* Optional I/O history tray icon
* Windows 64-bit for Itanium support
What's new in Version 10.0:
* The process column is locked on the left side so that it doesn't scroll horizontally out of view
* You can configure custom column selections and save them as easy-to-access column sets
* Image verification option now verifies images in the background
* More refresh intervals
* Runas menu entry in the File menu
* Run as Limited User menu entry in the File menu to run a process without administrative privileges and group membership
* Process menu includes Restart item to kill and then restart a selected process
* Can suspend individual threads on Threads page of Process Properties dialog
* The Find Window target moves Process Explorer's main window to the back to get it out of the way
* Close Window command uses same End Task functionality as Task Manager
* Show New Processes option scrolls display to make new processes visible
* Heuristics to detect more image packers
* User name of account in which Process Explorer is running is shown in the title bar
* Services can be stopped, resumed, and paused from the Services tab of the Process Properties dialog
* The DLLs that host SvcHost processes are listed in the Services tab of the Process Properties dialog
* Services running within a process display on the process' tooltip
* As a parallel to the CPU Usage History column there's now a Private Bytes Usage History column
* The Process view includes columns that show the working set breakdown of the process in shared, shareable and private pages
* New delta private-bytes column to show changes in private virtual memory usage
* Can copy lines from the Process, DLL and Handle views to the clipboard
* Option to show pagefile-backed (unnamed) sections in DLL view
* DLL and handle searching consolidated
* The DLL view includes columns that show the working set contributions in shared, shareable, and private pages
* The DLL a Rundll32 process hosts is shown in its process tooltip
* Packed DLL highlighting in DLL view
* Image signing verification available for DLLs
* Better DLL properties dialog
* Object address shown in Object Properties dialog
* File object share flags column for Handle view
What's new in Version 9.2:
* CPU history in tray icon
* CPU history column
* I/O delta column
* Process security editing
* Reports loaded 32-bit DLLs on Windows 64-bit
* Support for Windows Vista
* Buffer overflow bugfix in v9.25 and higher
What's new in Version 9.1:
* x64 and x86 executables are in a single binary
* x64 kernel and user-mode stack support
* New Verified Company column shows image signer information
* Strings tab in process properties dialog has in-memory image scan option
* Highlighting for images that are packed (have compressed or encrypted code, which is common in malware)
* Window menu on process context menu allows for minmizing, maximizing, and restoring windows
What's new in Version 9.0:
* System information dialog has per-CPU graph option with hyperthreaded and NUMA processor information
* A Users menu duplicates the functionality of Task Manager's Users tab, showing Terminal Services session information and supporting logoff, disconnect, and sending messages
* On XP SP2 and higher the TCP/IP tab displays the thread stack at the time an endpoint was opened
* The tray icon context menu includes the shutdown menu
* Search engine option to use Google or MSN Search
* Object address column is available for the handle view
* Image signatures can be checked on-demand in the process properties dialog
* Process explorer is digitally signed with Sysinternals' Verisign Class 3 signing certificate
What's new in Version 8.61:
* Data Execution Protection (DEP) status on process image tab and as column
* Copy-to-clipboard from process environment variable and strings dialogs
* Can select and copy text strings of process image properties page
* Multi-row tabs on process properties dialog
* Image signing verification on process image properties dialog
* Mini-CPU usage graph on toolbar
* Command-line option for specifying Process Explorer priority
* Manual refresh (F5) forces recheck of job and .NET process status
* Single-clicking on tray icon minimizes and restores main window
What's new in Version 8.50:
* Finder tool for identifying the process that owns a selected window
* Strings listings for process and DLL images
* Google menu item for searching process and DLL information
* Tray tooltip shows highest-CPU consuming process
* Window status column (like Task Manager's Status column on the Applications tab)
* DLL view for System process shows list of loaded device drivers
What's new in Version 8.40:
* TCP/IP process properties page shows active TCP and UDP endpoints
* Display updating code eliminates all flicker
* 64-bit version shows which processes are 64-bit on process properties and adds 64-bit process column
* Additional opacity settings
* Improved symbol support
What's new in Version 8.30:
* Runs in non-admin account
* Treeview functionality to collapse and expand process subtrees
* Can bring process-owned window to the foreground
* System CPU graph shows timestamps and most-active process for any given point
* Per-process graph data tracked even when main window is minimized to tray
* Per-process graph data displays timestamps
* Tray icon has black background
* Can set process CPU affinity
* Process tooltip no longer between mouse pointer and process name
* Ability to add a comment to processes and new comment column
* More system information, including I/O deltas and paging data
* New process columns for I/O delta and page-fault delta
* More process performance information in process properties dialog
* Improved performance
What's new in Version 8.20:
* Can open multiple process properties dialogs simultaneously
* Process properties and thread stack dialogs are resizable
* System information dialog CPU and memory usage graphs like Task Manager
* More performance data on the System Information dialog
* Per-process CPU and memory graph tab in process properties
* Opacity settings
* New tray window context menu options
* More performance information on process properties dialog
* Lock option in shutdown menu
* Reconfigured menu items and highlighting configuration
* New status bar column options
What's new in Version 8.10:
* Status bar information is configurable to show CPU usage, commit charge, # of processes, and more
* Can terminate individual threads
* New Shutdown menu for logging off and shutting down the system
* Only allow one instance option
* Auto-open of lower pane when a find result is clicked
What's new in Version 8.0:
* .NET tab for .NET processes that shows AppDomains and .NET performance counters
* When the .NET Framework is detected a .NET tab on the column selection dialog for adding .NET performance counters
* Option to show only .NET processes
* Option to only show your own processes
* System Information dialog showing the same memory counters as Task Manager (when symbols are configured, also shows maximum paged and nonpaged pool values)
* Better symbol configuration guidance
* Difference highlight duration is configurable
* Tray icon for CPU usage that's yellow when usage is > 70% and red when > 90%
* Minimize-to-tray option
* Highlight color configuration dialog
* Context switch and context-switch delta columns
* Run processes using the system Run dialog from the File menu
* Replace task manager option so that when you run Task Manager Process Explorer runs instead
* Only non-zero CPU usage, .NET counters and context-switch values are displayed to clearly highlight process activity
* Search for DLLs or handles regardless of what mode the lower pane is in
* Correct icons for MMC windows
* Mouse hover over process names and DLL names shows full path of executable or DLL
Other Process Explorer features include:
* Support for full handle viewing on Win9x/Me (with the exception of Registry key handles)
* Process icons
* Service process highlighting
* Process tree display
* Configurable refresh rate
* Refresh highlighting: new entries in the process, handle and DLL views are green, and deleted ones red
* Listview tooltips
* DLL descriptions in the DLL view
* Highlights relocated DLLs
* Jump-to-entry in the find dialog
* Efficient refresh
* Runs on Windows 9x/Me
* Lists all process owners, even on Terminal Server systems
* Moveable columns
* Column selection and a wide variety of configurable process, DLL and handle columns
* Asynchronous updates of all views
* Configurable refresh highlighting effects
* Save function saves process view and current bottom view (handle or DLL)
* Minimize-to-tray option
* Process suspend/resume
* Thread details including stacks
* Fractional CPU usage
* Job object information
* Right-justified numeric columns with numeric formatting
* Mutex properties shows owning thread if mutex is owned
* More information in process properties
* Start time and CPU time process columns
* Option to hide the lower pane
* Kill process tree
* More accurate Registry key names for profile unload debugging
* Extensive help file
* Service descriptions on services tab of service process properties dialog