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Process Explorer Changelog

What's new in Process Explorer 17.05

Jul 26, 2023
  • This update to Process Explorer, an advanced process, DLL, and handle viewing utility, fixes a crash generated by the process list, fixes a bug with thread affinity decoding on systems with multiple processor groups (more than 64 processors / cores), and makes Escape key handling more consistent.

New in Process Explorer 17.04 (Apr 4, 2023)

  • This update to Process Explorer fixes a regression highlighting immersive processes and fixes a security bug.

New in Process Explorer 17.03 (Mar 30, 2023)

  • This update to Process Explorer, an advanced process, DLL, and handle viewing utility, adds improved packaged app support, fixes a dark mode bug, and fixes a security bug.

New in Process Explorer 17.02 (Nov 10, 2022)

  • This update to Process Explorer fixes two bugs that can lead to crashes and another that leads to an unexpected dialog in an error case.

New in Process Explorer 17.01 (Nov 3, 2022)

  • This update to Process Explorer fixes a crash when right-clicking an empty area of the lower pane threads tab and improves menu rendering.

New in Process Explorer 17.00 (Oct 26, 2022)

  • This update to Process Explorer, an advanced process, DLL and handle viewing utility, adds dark theme support, multipane view in the main window with a new threads pane, startup performance optimization and more.

New in Process Explorer 16.43 (Aug 19, 2021)

  • This update to Process Explorer fixes a memory leak in the handle properties dialog, includes a new label, "medium+" for process integrity levels and has some display tweaks for systems with large memory capacity.

New in Process Explorer 16.42 (Jun 1, 2021)

  • This update to Process Explorer fixes a bug with signature checks.

New in Process Explorer 16.41 (May 26, 2021)

  • This update to Process Explorer fixes a startup crash.

New in Process Explorer 16.40 (May 26, 2021)

  • This update to Process Explorer, an advanced process, DLL and handle viewing utility, adds process filtering support to the main display and reports process CET (shadow stack) support.

New in Process Explorer 16.32 (May 8, 2020)

  • This update resolves an issue where the application icon in the tree view was displayed incorrectly.

New in Process Explorer 16.25 (Jul 1, 2019)

  • This update to Process Explorer fixes a potential buffer overflow when processing abnormally large environment variable blocks.

New in Process Explorer 16.22 (Dec 12, 2018)

  • Fixes a race condition that could cause a bluescreen.

New in Process Explorer 16.21 (May 16, 2017)

  • This Process Explorer release includes a fix for an intermittent bug in the Virus Total scanning logic, and is signed with Win7 RTM-compatible certificate.

New in Process Explorer 16.20 (Dec 2, 2016)

  • This release of Process Explorer, a powerful process management and diagnostic utility, adds reporting of process Control Flow Guard (CFG) status and dynamically updates to reflect changes to process Data Execution Prevention (DEP) configuration.

New in Process Explorer 16.11 (Feb 3, 2016)

  • This release of Process Explorer, a powerful process management utility, fixes a bug that caused it to crash when it encountered an image with a path length longer than a few thousand characters.

New in Process Explorer 16.1 (Jan 5, 2016)

  • Process Explorer now includes a column in the handle view that reports the text version of handle access masks, as well as several bug fixes including one that would result in the suspension of .NET threads when viewed via the stack dialog.

New in Process Explorer 16.05 (Mar 11, 2015)

  • Process Explorer now includes a Protection column that shows process protection status.

New in Process Explorer 16.04 (Sep 12, 2014)

  • This update fixes a bug in Virus Total file submission that could cause a crash, and now shows Windows Store package names on the Image page of the process properties dialog.

New in Process Explorer 16.03 (Aug 9, 2014)

  • This release of Process Explorer, a process viewing and control utility, fixes several bugs, including one where moving the mouse over the information graphs could cause it to crash and another that could cause a crash when checking Virus Total results.

New in Process Explorer 16.02 (Mar 8, 2014)

  • This minor update adds a refresh button to the thread’s stack dialog and ensures that the Virus Total terms of agreement dialog box remains above the main Process Explorer window.

New in Process Explorer 16.01 (Feb 5, 2014)

  • This release fixes a bug that could cause a crash when the VirusTotal column is added to the process view, and another that could cause a crash when verifying digital signatures.

New in Process Explorer 16.0 (Jan 30, 2014)

  • Thanks to collaboration with the team at VirusTotal, this Process Explorer update introduces integration with VirusTotal.com, an online antivirus analysis service. When enabled, Process Explorer sends the hashes of images and files shown in the process and DLL views to VirusTotal and if they have been previously scanned, reports how many antivirus engines identified them as possibly malicious. Hyperlinked results take you to VirusTotal.com report pages and you can even submit files for scanning.

New in Process Explorer 15.40 (Aug 2, 2013)

  • Now shows WMI providers hosted in Wmiprvse processes
  • Includes an option that configures it to automatically run when you logon
  • Introduces a process view column that shows process DPI awareness support on Windows 8.1 systems

New in Process Explorer 15.31 (Jun 5, 2013)

  • This update fixes a bug with copying text from the process properties dialog and adds an option to disable the heatmap display in the process view.

New in Process Explorer 15.3 (Feb 6, 2013)

  • This major Process Explorer release includes heat-map display for process CPU, private bytes, working set and GPU columns, sortable security groups in the process properties security page, and tooltip reporting of tasks executing in Windows 8 Taskhostex processes. It also creates dump files that match the bitness of the target process and works around a bug introduced in Windows 8 disk counter reporting.

New in Process Explorer 15.23 (Oct 4, 2012)

  • This update to Process Explorer adds the ability to view the process token of protected processes, fixes a bug that causes a crash when viewing thread stacks on Windows XP, and fixes a bug that causes a crash when running on Windows PE.

New in Process Explorer 15.21 (Jun 29, 2012)

  • This update fixes a bug related to the autostart functionality introduced in v15.2, a tooltip display bug, and a bug that prevented display of kernel stacks.

New in Process Explorer 15.2 (Jun 8, 2012)

  • This major update to Process Explorer merges Autoruns functionality by adding a new Autostart Location column and property to the process and DLL views that indicates where an image is configured to automatically start or load. It also adds .NET stack walking support to the thread stack dialog, adds a process timeline column that graphically depicts a process’s lifetime relative other processes, and uses the Windows 8 private ETW logger which enables better coexistence with other ETW-based tools.

New in Process Explorer 15.13 (Feb 17, 2012)

  • This Process Explorer release adds Background priority to the process context menu, which sets the CPU, memory and I/O priorities of a process to low, and includes a bug fix for restoring user-entered process comments.

New in Process Explorer 15.12 (Jan 13, 2012)

  • This update to Process Explorer makes the search dialog asynchronous and reports the types of found items. It also fixes several bugs, including showing a small font when run after an older version, a bug in the restart-process functionality, working set columns not showing data, and again shows information about service processes when run from an unprivileged user account.

New in Process Explorer 15.11 (Dec 17, 2011)

  • This minor update fixes several bugs, including the fleeting appearance of garbage characters in the status bar.

New in Process Explorer 15.05 (Sep 21, 2011)

  • This update fixes a bug in cycle CPU usage calculation on Windows 7.

New in Process Explorer 15.04 (Sep 2, 2011)

  • This release fixes several minor bugs, including a tooltip display bug and one that could result in a miscalculation of CPU usage on Windows 7 in the refresh immediately following the termination of a CPU-intensive process.

New in Process Explorer 15.03 (Aug 19, 2011)

  • This fixes a bug introduced in v15.02 that would result in a crash of Process Explorer when run with standard user rights and the System Information dialog is opened.

New in Process Explorer 15.02 (Aug 17, 2011)

  • Process Explorer v15.02 includes minor updates to the drawing routines.

New in Process Explorer 15.01 (Jul 26, 2011)

  • Process Explorer v15.01: This update adds the ability to select a custom graph background color, adds paged and nonpaged pool quota columns to the process view, fixes incorrect information on the disk and network process properties dialog on 32-bit Windows, and fixes a GPU tray icon bug.

New in Process Explorer 15.0 (Jul 19, 2011)

  • This major update to Process Explorer, a powerful tool for inspecting and controlling processes, threads, loaded DLLs, and more, adds GPU utilization and memory monitoring on Vista and higher. It also adds the ability to restart services, has a smaller memory footprint, and has visually cleaner performance graphs.

New in Process Explorer 14.01 (Nov 23, 2010)

  • This update fixes a bug related to the DLL view and adds a tab to the new system information dialog, Summary, that displays all the performance graphs together.

New in Process Explorer 14.0 (Nov 17, 2010)

  • This major update to Process Explorer adds a slew of enhancements and new functionality including network and disk monitoring, an improved multi-tab system information dialog, additional memory statistics, a new column that shows aggregate CPU usage for a tree of processes, improved DLL scanning performance and accuracy, command-lines in process tree tooltips, support for more than 64 CPU systems, and more.

New in Process Explorer 12.04 (Jun 9, 2010)

  • Adds the ability to generate full and minidump process crash dump files and fixes a bug in the process permission dialog.

New in Process Explorer 12.03 (Apr 16, 2010)

  • This update revs the driver name so that it is used even when the previous driver is already loaded.

New in Process Explorer 12.02 (Apr 16, 2010)

  • This update fixes a bug in the x86 Windows Vista driver that could cause a crash.

New in Process Explorer 12.01 (Apr 16, 2010)

  • This update fixes a bug that prevented DEP status being shown on Windows XP and the threads page of the process properties dialog from showing service names on Windows Vista.

New in Process Explorer 12.00 (Apr 16, 2010)

  • This Process Explorer release includes several significant new features, including the showing the web hosted in IE8 processes in the process tooltip, display of a svchost’s service host category in its tooltip, mapping of service names to threads on the threads tab and TCP/IP tabs of the process properties dialog on Windows Vista and higher (thanks to Windows Internals 5th Ed. coauthor Alex Ionescu), a new.NET assembly information tab in the process properties dialog (thanks to Pete Sheill), as well as other improvements and bug fixes.

New in Process Explorer 11.33 (Feb 6, 2009)

  • This update fixes a bug where the history graph tooltips could display the wrong data point and reduces the memory footprint of the structures that store graph history.

New in Process Explorer 11.32 (Jan 12, 2009)

  • This update fixes a bug in the process security page's name resolution and uses history graph tooltips that track the mouse.

New in Process Explorer 11.31 (Dec 11, 2008)

  • This update works around a bug in the latest Debugging Tools for Windows debug engine DLL and fixes a bug that could cause objects to show up as when Process Explorer was run without administrative rights.

New in Process Explorer 11.3 (Nov 20, 2008)

  • This update to Process Explorer includes numerous enhancements and bug fixes, including a physical memory history graph, options to configure memory tray icons, asyncronous thread symbol resolution and security ID lookup, dynamic recognition of new volume drive letters, multiple character matching in the process view, and a smaller memory footprint.

New in Process Explorer 11.0 (Sep 5, 2007)

  • New treelist control for better UI responsiveness
  • Asynchronous thread symbol resolution on threads tab of process properties
  • More flags on groups in security tab and SID display
  • Thread IDs on threads tab
  • On-line search uses default web browser and search engine
  • Vista ASLR column for processes and DLLs
  • Vista Process and thread I/O and memory priorities in process and thread properties
  • Vista Process and thread I/O and memory columns
  • PROCESS_QUERY_LIMITED_INFORMATION support on process permissions on Vista
  • Run as limited user runs with low IL on Vista
  • Reports information for all object types on Vista
  • Show details for all processes elevation menu item on Vista
  • Supports replacement of task manager on Vista
  • /e to launch elevated
  • /s switch to select a process at startup
  • Compiled w/ASLR, DEP
  • Faster startup
  • Miscellaneous bug fixes and minor improvements

New in Process Explorer 10.2 (Jul 11, 2006)

  • Vista integrity level and virtualized columns and process properties
  • Signed driver for 64-bit Vista for x64 processors