What's new in Portable KillProcess 2.44
May 6, 2015
- Application now fully supports Windows 7
- Fixed a bug with the process priority being displayed wrong if the Realtime setting was used
- Changed default settings for application to integrate better with Windows 7 new taskbar
- Added Kill Lists for Windows 2008 and Windows 7
- Added possibility to reset application settings to default
- Fixed bug to make sure that KillProcess is silent in every aspect when running as in batch mode.
New in Portable KillProcess 2.43 (May 6, 2015)
- Fixed the application to fully support support Vista, which means that the application will default run in normal mode and that there is an elevated mode available.
- Now possible to launch processes in elevated mode for Vista
- Changed the tray icon information to show the active kill list if available
- Added the possibility to load lists right of the tray icon menu
- Added the possibility to run lists right of the tray icon menu -
- Moved the "PID" column in the process list
- Removed the "Listed" column in the process list and replaced with the "Parent PID" which is much more useful
- Fixed the bug with the "Minimize on Exit" function not being applied on the X-button
- Now possible to explore the process folder
- Finally nailed the problem with the process descriptions being wrong after a couple of hours of execution
- several other smaller bugs and improvements
New in Portable KillProcess 2.42 (May 6, 2015)
- It is now possible to remember the size of the main window
- Made some improvements to the COM interface in KillProcess.dll + added documentation for it in the application help.
- Fixed so that the application will not hang when trying to show other hung applications
- Improved the show window function to be a little more clever.
- Improved so that it is possible to select for which user the Autorun feature shall affect (Current or All users)
- Fixed bug in Replace Task Manager feature
- Fixed the application layout of buttons and menu items according to Microsoft GUI Guidelines & Standards
- Improved the visibility of the "Resurrect Process" feature
- This includes introducing a new button for the feature in the main dialog and moving it in the application menus.
- Fixed so that application windows be resized too small.
- Upgraded to NSIS version 2.27
- Possible to multiselect processes in kill list editor
- Increased size of kill list editor
- Changed so that the scanning feature will be more vicious and
- scan more actively for all running processes, since the previous
- functionality confused a lot of users
New in Portable KillProcess 2.41 (May 6, 2015)
- Improved Kill List Dialog again
- Fixed bug when using very long polltime settings
- Fixed bug with logging feature.
- Tested on Windows Vista RTM build
- Fixed bug that wininit.exe was not identified as a vital system process (which is kind of fatal in Vista)
- Adapted to Windows Vista UAC model
- Now requesting Admin privileges if available
- Store application settings in Application data folder
- Introduced possibility to cancel a batch termination process
New in Portable KillProcess 2.40 (May 6, 2015)
- Reorganized all of the application menues to something less confusing and more logical
- Added menuitem for easy loading kill lists from main window
- Added menuitem for easy creation of kill lists from main window
- Improved handling of system standby operations and hibernation
- Fixed strange MSXML 4.0 bug while loading files.
- Tested with Windows Vista Beta 2 (build 5384)
- Added more information to the kill lists and an neat editor for that purpose
- Added possibility to have inverted kill lists after suggestion made by Stephen Hoy. Inverted lists can prove to be pretty powerful if used with care!
- Added feature to replace the Task Manager with KillProcess
- Improved installation package and added pre-defined lists to installation
- Added Resurrect process possibility after suggestions from several users out there. This is possibly the coolest feature that I've implemented for a long long time!
- This will not work correctly for services yet - but that will be fixed in the next release
- Fixed a few annoying bugs with missing help files
New in Portable KillProcess 2.32 (May 6, 2015)
- Fixed bug in Google feature and hyperlinks
- Added "Show Window" possibility to display hidden windows
- Added "Hide Window" possibility to hide windows on the desktop
- Added Process Priority Dialog
- Fixed right-click menu for multiselected processs
- Possible to change the active kill list from main window for quick and easy selection
- Fixed annoying graphical bug with incorrect alignment of text in the columns in the main window
- Added possibility to sort the processes in the process list according to kill list items.
- Removed support for old KillProcess 1.0 stuff
- Improved settings usage and optimized startup speed
- Wastly improved kill list loading speed
- Upgraded to new NSIS (2.16) and improved the installation process
- Now associating KillProcess with .lst files in Windows.
- Makes it possible to load lists by double-clicking on them.
- Improved batch killing mode to accept relative path to apps thas should die.
- Solved alot of bugs with the columnsorting in the main window
- Now remembering the sorting column and order on exit
New in Portable KillProcess 2.31 (May 6, 2015)
- Now using the process icons in the process info dialog to make it easier to identify the processes.
- Fixed annoying bug that caused crashes while loading old kill-lists
- Changed the kill list editor to something that is more easy to understand and less ugly
- Replaced all of the application icons to 24-bit
- Improved homepage links and change import function
- Improved process scanning speed
- Added semi-vicious mode, to prevent critical Windows system processes from being terminated. This setting will be default
- Added checks for system processes when populating the list
- Using "My Documents" folder as default place to store lists according to Windows XP logo demands
- Improved online-help and improved help integration in application
- New application image...pretty cool?
- New application icon with 24-bit colors
- "Cleaned up" all main icons
New in Portable KillProcess 2.30 (May 6, 2015)
- Added support for XP themes and redid the GUI somewhat
- Now building with VS2005 and implemented secure string handling
- Fixed directory bug when creating new lists
- Made KillProcess more powerful
- Now almost any service or process will die by KillProcess hands
- Added possibillity to change the process priority
- Tested on Windows Vista 5270 build
- Fixed some bugs with open handles and wrong icons
- Changed icons for minimize and exit
- Added tooltips for the main application buttons
New in Portable KillProcess 2.21 (May 6, 2015)
- Fixed potential crash and buffer overflow attempts by malicious EXE files.
- Tested on Windows Vista Beta 1
New in Portable KillProcess 2.20 (May 6, 2015)
- Added Hibernation support
- Fixed dynamic icon for the close button
- The icon will be different if you don't shut down the application
- but minimize instead
- Finalized the help files