What's new in Process Explorer Portable 17.05

Jul 28, 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 Portable 17.04 (Apr 6, 2023)

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

New in Process Explorer Portable 17.03 (Mar 31, 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 Portable 17.0 (Oct 28, 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 Portable 16.43 (Aug 23, 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 Portable 16.42 (Jun 2, 2021)

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

New in Process Explorer Portable 16.41 (May 27, 2021)

  • This update to Process Explorer fixes a startup crash.

New in Process Explorer Portable 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 Portable 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 Portable 16.22 (Jan 31, 2019)

  • Fixes a race condition that could cause a bluescreen.

New in Process Explorer Portable 16.21 (May 18, 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 Portable 16.12 Rev 3 (Feb 21, 2017)

  • 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 Portable 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 Portable 16.10 (Jan 6, 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 Portable 16.05 (Jun 12, 2015)

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

New in Process Explorer Portable 16.04 (Jun 12, 2015)

  • 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 Portable 16.03 (Aug 11, 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 Portable 16.02 (Mar 10, 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 Portable 16.01 (Mar 10, 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 Portable 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 Portable 15.40 (Aug 6, 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 Portable 15.31 (Jun 6, 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 Portable 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 Portable 15.23 (Dec 6, 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.