[Francesco]

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

Quote

68 80 00 00 00 FF 15 14 11 00 01

and then change it to

Quote

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

[BlueMe]

lol ..i shoud have read more..

This post has been edited by BlueMe: 01 February 2006 - 12:18 PM

[gmx]

nice tip thanks

[Punio4]

Best tip i have seen in ages thanx!!!

[Anusha]

This only applies for the Windows XP's task manager. No such string in the Windows 2003 Server's task manager. Does anyone know how to perform this mod in Windows 2003?
Thanks

[BlueMe]

Well... thanks, end it up doing it.

[shooter468]

thanx alot
but how can we test if this actually works or not?

[BlueMe]

When you open task manager select View -> Select Columns and add Base Priority, now Beside Image Name, CPU, Memory etc. you should see in the Process tab the priority of every process .

[Aid]

Excellent tip, thanks!

[DarkShadows]

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.

[BlueMe]

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.

This post has been edited by BlueMe: 22 February 2006 - 04:37 PM

[BlueMe]

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 !

[ripken204]

i have windows x64 and in taskmanger i can just add the column "base priority" and it will show up, so what so hard about that?

[BlueMe]

The change will be permanent.
If u change the priority from the processes tab the next time you open task manager will be the same ..High Priority.

[Dels]

maybe there many different string in each win os (9x,me,2k,xp,2k3) so if someone have it please share it
(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
(i need a string for my win2k)

[matthewk]

I did this hex edit that was mentioned, and makecab'd it. When it got to a certain point in windows installation (not vmware, but normal), it kept requesting a retry on copying or installing taskmgr. I had to hit cancel, and the windows installation continued ok. Oddly, once I was in windows, taskmgr existed and worked fine. A note about the process of taskmgr right now: when I right click it in the process list, the default is showing as realtime.

[Dels]

Quote

I did this hex edit that was mentioned, and makecab'd it. When it got to a certain point in windows installation (not vmware, but normal), it kept requesting a retry on copying or installing taskmgr. I had to hit cancel, and the windows installation continued ok. Oddly, once I was in windows, taskmgr existed and worked fine. A note about the process of taskmgr right now: when I right click it in the process list, the default is showing as realtime.

simply, cause Windows check the taskman.exe (filesize or the bytes) and didn't recognize the hacked version so it ask to copy the "normal" taskman.exe and this would be called SFP (System File Protection)