What are Reddit's favorite Process Management Apps?
SuperF4
Process Explorer
Process Hacker
Glances
htop
Bashtop
SystemExplorer
GNOME System Monitor
Pipefy
Process Lasso
Iotop
vtop
KillSwitch
Bizagi
MiTeC Task Manager Deluxe
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Some cryptomining malware is able to detect when you open Task Manager, and then stop what it is doing in order to hide itself until you close it. That's my first guess.
Try Process Hacker.
I keep SuperF4 around for applications like this. Kills whatever's in the foreground, even explorer.exe if you're not careful. I've got no patience for applications that don't close in a timely manner.
It gives you a download for a file that is named "Sound Plugin.exe", which some people will fail to recognize as a threat and execute.
In fact it is a 7zip self extracting archive, containing 2 files (obfuscated javascript and a visual basic script (that just pops up a message box saying "This program cannot be run in this OS")).
These two scripts get autoexecuted upon succesful extraction.
The beefy part is the obfuscated javascript. It would take me some time to decypher that one, but I see it may be getting some data from web server and execute them.
Edit: It downloads a few files. One of them is this 'https://www.myflare.com/0/io/hotlink/_nG281JOEeWxaAICrBEAbg/arhiv'. Password protected file containing some dll files and executables in systemx64 directory. I think I could find the password in the scripts, but I don't know if it is worth the trouble.
Edit2: The password is "BOSSLOVEMONEY" for anyone that would like to look inside, but you better know what you are doing!
Edit3: still interested? The code in the archive is some kind of exploit that connects to a server (some chinese-registered domain pudgenormpers.com) that probably gives it commands. Seeing that, I won't dig any further.
Edit4: Looking at the client32.exe binary, it seems to be this: http://systemexplorer.net/file-database/file/client32-exe/24839247
Software engineer and hobbyist sysadmin here. Steam performing a bunch of reads shouldn't put your performance out too much, assuming that you're not engaging in any other disk-heavy loads. Applications should still be responsive, nothing should lag, etc.
If you're seeing applications lag like they're not responding, and not just seeing applications take longer to do things, then there's a good chance you're low on RAM and your applications are being paged out of memory.
Yeah, buying an SSD will help the problem, but that's really only a band-aid; the real fix is to make sure you don't leave too many applications open, or if you're just running out of memory, consider getting more.
If you want to try to diagnose these sort of things, I'd recommend checking out the tools at Sysinternals. Process explorer is one of their most popular tools, but vmmap is handy for examining a single process.
Download the Sysinternals tool "Process Explorer" (here: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx )... launch it.. and go under the OPTIONS menu and turn ON the "VirusTotal" functionality. (it may make you agree to a EULA...,etc)
The "VirusTotal" feature... takes a snapshot of all your currently running processes --- and compares them against the virus-database up on www.virustotal.com .... that should tell you whether any of your current Processes are suspicious or not.
SuperF4, for every time you've wanted to tear your hair out because unresponsive programs black screen, ignore alt+f4, and refuse to allow task manager to be visible.
I'm not the most educated on the subject, but I came across the same problem and do have a solution.
It's not "forever," per se, but does seem to remove most of my noticeable input lag.
1) Download Process Explorer.
2) Open osu!
3) Run ProcExp as administrator.
4) Find "explorer.exe" on the list. Right click and hit "Kill process."
5) Find "winlogon.exe" on the list. Right click and hit "Suspend."
6) Under "winlogon.exe" should be "dwm.exe." Right click and hit "Kill process."
You should be free from the binds of Windows 8.
Note that you have to do this process every time you wish to play osu!, unfortunately.
After doing these steps, you will be unable to access the Start Menu, File Explorer, and other minute processes related to Windows.
To revive Windows 8, simply hit "File" on Process Explorer (hopefully you haven't closed it, or you'll have to restart), click "run," and type "explorer.exe." Hit "Ok," and your File Explorer will be necromanced.
Right click on the suspended "winlogon.exe." and hit "Resume" to revive the Windows 8. dwm.exe should reappear when you do this.
If anyone has a better solution, please share ;_;
there's a program I use called SuperF4. Instead of requesting the program to close (like normal Alt+F4 does) it has a key combo (Ctrl+Alt+F4) which actually ends the process itself. So it would kill the game without letting it save (saving happens on close request or opening the exit menu, so SuperF4 would allow it to die without saving.)
https://stefansundin.github.io/superf4/
Just wanted to mention SuperF4 which IIRC was in a post here a couple day ago. Downloaded it 2 days ago and it saved me literally the day after cause a game went unresponsive and I couldn't access my task manager.
Fire up Process Explorer, double click on the explorer.exe process, go to the "Performance Tab" and post a screenshot.
Then close that properties window, and while keeping explorer.exe selected, hit Control-D, which will open the lower pane showing what DLLs are loaded into explorer.exe. Sort by Path, and then hit Control-A to save it to a text file. Dump the text file here.
The usage is real if the "private bytes" or "working set" values are high. Virtual Size has nothing to do with physical memory usage.
The cause is usually something third party, whether it be something you intentionally installed, or from a virus/malware.
If you have anything installed that integrates with the context menus in Windows, consider uninstalling that. WinZip, 7 Zip, TortoiseSVN, Virus scanners themselves - these run some parts in explorer's process, and if they have memory leaks it'll cause your sort of problems.
Scan the list of DLLs that show up as loaded into explorer.exe, and see if anything looks suspicious. Find out what installed it and uninstall it. That's what I'll be doing if you post the list.
Any action that you take to try to fix this will usually only show up after explorer.exe gets restarted. You can do that either by 1) rebooting 2) logging out and logging back in 3) manually restarting explorer.exe while logged in (for instance, in process explorer, right click on explorer.exe and click restart).
It's possible your Anti-Virus scanners aren't finding anything because the Remote-Control/Access is a legit program (IE = if an exploit or trojan opened the Remote-Desktop ports or installed something like VNC or TeamViewer,etc)
If that theory is correct.. then your only option really is to go through your machine with a fine-tooth comb and look for any "remote-control" apps that YOU didn't install.
Alternatively.. you could use the official Microsoft Sysinternals tool named "Process Explorer" (download here: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx ) ... open/launch it and click on OPTIONS and enable the VirusTotal feature. The VirusTotal feature takes a snapshot/fingerprint of all your running processes and compares it to the virus-database up on www.virustotal.com .... and will tell you if any of your running processes are suspicious.
Another approach you could use.. would be to use a command like NETSTAT -A ... to view all open network connections.. and see where the traffic is going.
Use Process Explorer to see if the CMD is being called with arguments: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx
And Autoruns to track down the cmd entry (if there's a match): https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx
(I'd start in the task scheduler.)
> If it is a Windows machine, you should reboot.
Sorry, but this isn't true anymore for the vast majority of cases. You should use tools like Task Manager or Process Explorer to see if the app is doing useful work and/or kill the individual process in question.
Fastest way to figure out what's going on:
If you download a program called process explorer by sysinternals, it will actually branch out and show you EXACTLY what processes are being spawned under that instance of rundll32.exe. From there you will find out exactly what's going on.
link: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx
I had the same memory leak symptoms [system crash after 2 hrs] and used process explorer to find which files were being accessed and not released back into free memory. Turns out it was an audio driver conflict with an external mixing unit I had plugged into the comp via usb. Removing the driver and unplugging the unit before starting Planetside resolved my problem.
Well probably one of the more interesting features is it being cross-platform. It's also easier to move around your meters and columns, and it has mouse support. There's more info on the official site.
IMO, yes, it's worth upgrading, but htop is an essential program for me.
Based on the screenshot, it looks ok as a resource monitor, but doesn't leave much room for the process list, so I'm not sure how useful it would be as a task manager.
I would definitely have it pick a default theme, rather than force the user to specify one each time. I wasn't able to actually use it though, due to an IndexError.
htop is still where it's at.
Because every body says it's better.
http://hisham.hm/htop/index.php?page=screenshots
Comparison between htop and top
In 'htop' you can scroll the list vertically and horizontally to see all processes and complete command lines.
In 'top' you are subject to a delay for each unassigned key you press (especially annoying when multi-key escape sequences are triggered by accident).
'htop' starts faster ('top' seems to collect data for a while before displaying anything).
In 'htop' you don't need to type the process number to kill a process, in 'top' you do.
In 'htop' you don't need to type the process number or the priority value to renice a process, in 'top' you do.
'htop' supports mouse operation, 'top' doesn't
'top' is older, hence, more used and tested.
I'm guessing for you this stuff is actually useful and not just window dressing. Thats pretty interesting.
reminds me of this htop screenshot of a machine with 128 cores! http://hisham.hm/htop/128.png
I personally use Process Explorer - being able to track .dll problems with it and across everything running has helped in the past.
Havent uses system explorer though so cant compare the two.
I recommend SuperF4
It's a more powerful but less elegant Alt+f4 equivalent, this will force the program to quit when you press Ctrl+Alt+F4 instead of politely asking windows if the program could close
Edit: Alternatively you can do Windows Key + F4, which will turn your cursor into a skull. Click on whatever window you want to close. Haven't tested this in a fullscreen game though. Talking about fullscreen games, I recommend Borderless Windowed mode, it makes alt+tabbing and closing it much easier.
Yes.
> First you will need to download Process Explorer and run it as administrator: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx
>1. go to \Heroes of the Storm\Support64\HeroesSwitcher_x64.exe and launch the game
>2. run Process Explorer as administrator
>3. select HeroesSwitcher_x64.exe
>4. press CTRL + L (shows lower pane)
>5. find "\Sessions\1\BaseNamedObjects\Heroes of the Storm Game Application" right click it and select close handle
>6. find "\Sessions\1\BaseNamedObjects\Heroes of the Storm IPC Mem" right click it and select close handle
>7. go to \Heroes of the Storm\Support64\HeroesSwitcher_x64.exe and launch another session of the game
>NOTE: You will need to repeat this process (close the 2 handles) for each new session of the game if you want to launch even more.
When you force close a process, windows justs politely asks the process to close iirc. The process can say "fuk u" and just keep hanging on. This is where Super F4 comes in. Ctrl + Alt + F4 takes no shit from no process!! There's even a Windows + F4 for targeted assassinations.
SuperF4 is a useful little program that force kills the foreground task when you hit ctrl-alt-f4. Accomplishes the same thing as using task manager & selecting kill task but a lot quicker: https://stefansundin.github.io/superf4/
Basically when you're done w/ BF4 you hit ctrl-alt-f4 and are instantly back at desktop.
you can use NtQuerySystemInformation to acquire the cycle time of each process
if you are comfortable reading c code, check out process hacker's source code
https://processhacker.sourceforge.io/doc/procprv_8c_source.html
First you will need to download Process Explorer and run it as administrator: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx
go to \Heroes of the Storm\Support64\HeroesSwitcher_x64.exe and launch the game
run Process Explorer as administrator
select HeroesSwitcher_x64.exe
press CTRL + L (shows lower pane)
find "\Sessions\1\BaseNamedObjects\Heroes of the Storm Game Application" right click it and select close handle
find "\Sessions\1\BaseNamedObjects\Heroes of the Storm IPC Mem" right click it and select close handle
go to \Heroes of the Storm\Support64\HeroesSwitcher_x64.exe and launch another session of the game
NOTE: You will need to repeat this process (close the 2 handles) for each new session of the game if you want to launch even more.
I have not tested how the bot performs with multiple sessions since my SB key is limited to 1 session only.
A process invoking that file must be active on the system somewhere.
I would download and use Sysinternals "Process Explorer" ( https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx ).. and make sure you go under the OPTIONS menu and turn on the Virus Total feature.
Get process explorer and run as administrator (right-click -> run as administrator).
Do you have anything new, taking a lot of memory now?
You might want to install Process Monitor and have it running while you play the games that stutter. Set up a filter in Process Monitor so that it logs only events from the game's .exe file.
Process Monitor will tell you all the files and devices your game is attempting to access. You may see it failing to access certain resources, or doing other weird shit. This may illuminate a light bulb in your head somewhere.
You may also want to install Process Explorer and keep it running on a separate monitor while you play a stuttering game.
You may see the CPU use of some other app oddly high while you play your game. For example, maybe something you installed is trying to render an overlay in your game and failing to do so. Maybe it supports some of your games but not others. This could be benchmarking software, a video card tuner, or maybe some bullshit service you didn't even know was installed that was bundled with a game or some hardware you bought. It could be some process that is listening for hotkeys, who knows.
You may want to install something like MSI Afterburner and put a bunch of its metrics on your OSD. Maybe for whatever reason some of those games are maxing our your VRAM or GPU or something.
Also, note that even older games like Mount and Blade have some video options that will stress even a modern video card, depending on drivers and such. You might want to take a poorly performing game and set it to the lowest spec possible and see if it still stutters. If it doesn't, incrementally enable shit and turn up the resolution until the stuttering begins to occur.
This is why I like lua mods.
Edit: a good av tool is actually process explorer because it can check all your running processes for viruses on virustotal. The reason this is good is because if you run gta and check your processes you can see if something is only running while gta is open.
There's a nifty little program I use called SuperF4. It will autokill any process giving you issues by pressing Alt-F4, and it's completely portable, so you can toss it on your mass storage drive and set it/forget it.
I've posted it before, but maybe it comes in handy for the people who missed it. I've been using this SuperF4 for over a year now because i had a game that also didn't want to quit. Every now and then in BF1 it will even hang longer than needed when you use Alt F4, with that tool you press Ctrl Alt F4 and it shuts down within a second. The faster you can get back in afterwards.
Not sure if it works on Windows XP, as that OS is outdated and insecure, but System Explorer has a view that shows processes starting, closing, opened and closed TCP/IP connections and and high CPU usage. That list is limited to 1000 entries by default, but that limit can be lifted and there is also an option to save the log to a file.
Some tips to try boost performance on laptop:
- Make sure your laptop is using your nvidia graphics processor by default and not the integrated graphics (check your nvidia control panel)
- On nvidia control panel, manage 3D settings and add the Escape From Tarkov alpha .exe file and make sure to set the power management mode to be "Prefer Maximum Performance"
- Download System Explorer and run Escape From Tarkov, alt+tab back to desktop, open System Explorer, right click the EFT .exe file and set the process priority to High. Right click again and click permanent so that it will always be high when you boot the game.
- Download Unpark CPU and run it to unpark your CPU cores.
Just some general tips for anyone, even with a Desktop can use to try get better performance out of any game.
To be sure, read Reddits virus removal thread MalwareBytes is currently the favourite scanning/removal tool.
Yep - sounds like a stuck key indeed.
The other thing you could try is installing System Explorer This adds a small icon to your systray that looks like a monitor with a green performance graph on it.
Leave your mosue floating over the icon, and let the computer idle until it hits 100% When the CPU starts to rocket, the process eating up all your system should be listed there by filename
Google that file name and see whats found.
Do you have any sort of CPU or graphics card monitoring software (ATI/Nvidia)? I'm wondering do you have overheating issues since this started in the middle of a game when the CPU/GPU load is usually at it's highest.
If you like htop you should also check out glances. Great tool.
https://nicolargo.github.io/glances/
My favorite feature about it is that it sorts the list dynamically in order of importance based on certain metrics. If a process is using an unusually high amount of RAM, it will be at the top. If a process is sucking up a lot of CPU, that will also get sorted up top. It can be viewed through the terminal like htop or through the browser if you have it running as a server
MsMpEng.exe is legit, that's part of Windows Defender, but yeah the other one was definitely fake. Personally, I use a different Task Manager called Process Hacker and from there you can enable a "Command Line" column, and see where programs are being run from. You can also see what process started what, as programs are in a tree style format. You will definitely see the malware in a non legit folder, probably the temp files, which is a dead giveaway that the program is malware.
You definitely should run some other anti-virus or anti-malware programs and do a deep scan to see if there isn't anything else on your system.
Download Process Explorer and run it. On the top bar, click View > Select Columns.... Go to the Process GPU tab, then check all four boxes and hit OK. You can sort by those columns now, something must be using the GPU. What does it show?
This kind of crash used to happen a fair bit with a few different engines, in some cases overclocking seemed to make it more frequent, sometimes game issues were found and updates caused them to happen far less frequently. Sometimes the system recovers after a very long time and the game closes, but the best tip I found many years ago was simply to have Super F4 on autostart as it makes recovering from such crashes trivial.
Y’all should use Super F4 so you can easily AT+F4 those type of games/programs that don’t force close easily. It’s an amazing program! The shortcut would be CRTL+ALT+F4 Edit: I forgot the link smh https://stefansundin.github.io/superf4/
This program. Using this you can kill any active program with Ctrl+Alt+F4.
Difference to Windows Alt+F4 is that Windows tries to stop the program gracefully while SuperF4 just immediately kills the process.
When ALT+F4 won't close the program in focus, you can force kill it (same as doing it in Task Manager) by CTRL+ALT+F4. I've been using Superf4 for years; very handy and effective when dealing with memory leaky games and stuff.
A cool 'lil tool i admire is SuperF4. When you're in a full screen application and press Alt-F4 Win only sends a shutdown request to the program. SuperF4 (Ctrl-Alt-F4) kills the process instantly. :)
I have SuperF4 installed so i might just skip out real quick next time, to see if that works. That program kills the process as if you would go to the taskbar and kill the process, so not the normal way.
I have that since Cities Skylines always hangs for 2 minutes when closing down :) Better to close it right away.
Thanks for the tip.
I figure this would be a nice time to share this:
https://stefansundin.github.io/superf4/
One of the best little apps I've downloaded.
When you press Alt-F4, it's like pressing the close button (asking it nicely to close on its own terms). Pressing ctrl+alt-F4 with this app kills the active process immediately.
I use this shit all the fucking time. Especially when closing somethign like Battlefield, which takes an eternity to close... no more! Makes rage quits 10,000x more gratifying.
Then there are a lot of crazies out there :)
It’s all about picking the right tool for the job. Don’t overkill something with some elaborate python code or c code for example, when it can be quickly written in a unix shell. Don’t underestimate either, writing a full blown UI these days isn’t very efficient, but there are a few I’ve seen in the past that are impressive (and I would imagine written purely for the sake of it) and I don’t mean glue ui elements with external tools like zenity. For fun, and to be clear I have zero connection to this - only enjoy clever work as most can appreciate, check out bashtop ( https://github.com/aristocratos/bashtop ), looks like the author rewrote it in python now. None the less impressive for a pure bash tool.
Sounds like too many background processes could be running while you're trying to play the games.
Run them at minimum graphical settings, just for a short time, to see if there is any freezing still. If there isn't, I'm guessing that you have too much running in the background, and then the games are pushing your computer even harder at Max.
A good tool to use to determine how many background services/processes are running is System Explorer. http://systemexplorer.net/
Let me know what you think of my advice, and don't be afraid to ask me any further questions!
> Sysinternals Process Explorer
I used that for a bit but ended up switching to System Explorer. So far, I think I prefer System Explorer. But I'm not a game programmer or software developer, so maybe that's contributing to my preference.
Its basically a little GUI for linux that are CLI systems. I do not use it much but it is a nice snapshot if I do not feel like opening a CMD to check.
EDIT: A cli overview would be something like glances: https://nicolargo.github.io/glances/
I've been using Glances, I really like the minimal text aesthetic. Dead simple to set up. Probably not exactly what your looking for though, not so much a dashboard more of a server monitor, but it can be exported to Grafana.
Left is htop which is a pretty version of top. Center code is legacy C++ I was implementing a minor feature for. Right is my .vimrc. The ergodox/trackpad setup helps with RSI
This will come in handy. Borderless windowed mode, too, helps a lot. If you let PH replace your taskmanager you can call it from CTRL-ALT-DEL, leave it up in taskbar and mouse over to it when 3d is hung and stole screen, etc
No more applications refusing to be closed because they're special snowflakes.
I said this in another comment, but this might be helpful knowledge if you ever run into this kind of problem again:
I think there is a temp or cache file somewhere in the system that preserves info that said the game was running, and that probably initiated on startup, even after you rebooted the computer. A restart in safe mode (if it still exists) would solve that kind of problem, probably. It takes a lot of digging through running processes (usually ones you can't see with normal task manager) to find and isolate the cause of the problem. The Process Explorer tool (completely different from built-intask manager; you even need to separately download it) could probably help find it, because it finds absolutely everything. It's available at https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx Tutorials are very helpful when using that tool, it's not very intuitive for first-time users.
I only know this because I'm a developer and have had to fix these kinds of problems in the past.
SuperF4 should do the trick. You can also use proper task manager like Process Explorer and kill it from there. Both can kill apps without giving them a way to prevent that.
Honestly, heavy SP3 user here, and I've gotten 1 blue screen (gpu driver issue that must have been taken care of in an update). I've had it shutdown for thermal issues 1 time (during the initial setup when transferring files, doing updates, and installing programs all at once). When I'm running data analysis or playing games I get ~3 hours, but regular note use usually lasts ~5 hours. For several weeks I went to a coffee shop daily between 12 and 5-6 to work on my thesis, meaning I had Firefox, OneNote, Word, Matlab, Acrobat, and a few other programs running, and would leave when the battery warning popped up at 10%. Your experience sounds very atypical.
Have you tried a factory wipe, or at least hunting down rogue background processes with something like Process Explorer? Could also be a hardware issue. Blue screens are really rare, actually, which makes me think this is a driver or hardware issue. I would at least do a wipe before running off to the land of capacitive styluses (ew). I can't imagine always taking notes with my hand hovering over the screen.
I've heard some people have issues with the Windows 10 update. Did you update to 10 and do the recommended things like disable the 'hints about Windows' feature and deactivate background apps? Have you tried using the Modern OneNote version instead of eh desktop? I've heard it is more battery friendly (though I only use the desktop version, which has an option to extend battery life by delaying recognition).
If you use process explorer in administrator mode it will help you track down whatever bundles and/or channels are causing this.
Also, I recently had this problem due to networx bandwidth logger, some TDI drivers used by bandwidth management/tracking programs will cause interference with Plex and/or P2P applications.
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Edit: Obviously, if this still doesn't work. Reinstall your OS. Keep your UAC turned on (and run in a non-admin mode which will require a password to install stuff... annoying but effective against future issues like this). Adblock, Ghostery, a good firewall like pfsense/opnsense/ipfire with squid3/HAVP/Dansguardian/privoxy... and just the generic "don't install stupid shit, and don't let stupid users use your desktop" also goes a long distance.
I haven't ran antivirus in over 10 years and I've never had a virus. Just be smart about it, educate yourself. Don't install crapware and stay on the good side of the internet and you should be fine. (also use virtual desktops if you really have to visit the shit parts of the internet so you can just delete that instance or roll back from a snapshot).
Another very useful tip is to use a Microsoft app, that doesn't come stock, called Process Explorer. It can submit running process app hashes to Virustotal so you can see if the running processes are infected. It's not an antivirus, but it's a good "is this shit infected" tool... plus a lot more. Like Task Manager on steroids.
Good luck.
I would download Process Explorer and see what's really eating your CPU. It's a program from Microsoft that's basically Task Manager on steroids; it shows a lot more information about running processes and can help you pinpoint what exactly is causing the problem.
no but connecting to different servers will provide you with IP #s and let you measure hops with an external tool. sysinternal's Process Explorer will show all network connections for a given process; plug IPs from that into your hop measurement tool and away you go.
So when dealing with high CPU usage you need to find what program is causing this. This can be accomplished a few ways. One way is to open up your task manager and look at the process list. this will show which have the highest ram usage(generally high ram usage means high cpu). Another way is to use process explorer(microsoft): https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx
With process explorer it will show you better usage graphs. If you watch the top right there will be some small graphs going by. If you see a spike double click the graph and it will pull it up larger. You should then be able to hover over the spike and it will tell you the exe causing the spike. Then start researching why that program might do that.
First thing is first, you want to find out what is using the svchost.
Use THIS tool to see all of your processes, and hover above the SVChost process to find out what is running.
When you hover above that, it's going to look similar to THIS That should help you on your way to figuring it out.
Your next best bet is to download ESET, Malwarebytes, Malwarebytes anti rootkit, and Roguekiller - run all of this stuff in safe mode.
If you come out clean, then try looking into Event Viewer for more clues.
For future reference try out process explorer and autoruns. Really these two tool tools should be just about all anyone ever needs to disinfect their PC unless it was hit with something a reinstall can't fix either.
SuperF4 (shortcut is ctrl + alt + f4) https://stefansundin.github.io/superf4/ lets you force closing programs
works with anything including dota, and doesn't require an autohotkey setup
When ALT+F4 is not good enough, use CTRL+ALT+F4
I can't believe this features is not standard, it found permanent residency on my computer(s).
Normal alt+F4 basically tells the program to exit, so if it isn't responding (or just doesn't want to exit) nothing happens. SuperF4 just ends the process like task manager does.
Yeah, normal alt-f4 isn't like using Task Manager to end a process. It simply gives the standard request to close the program the same way as hitting the X in windowed mode does.
I was not aware that SuperF4 existed and now I need it. https://stefansundin.github.io/superf4/
>Couldnt kill the process either, nor enter task manager.. Sucks.
This seems to be more of an issue with a variety of games in recent versions of windows. I think it might to correlated with the higher prevalence of games with the option to use borderless windowed mode instead of fullscreen mode.
I've been using SuperF4 for a couple of months now and it works pretty well at killing games that freeze in a way that won't let you get to Task Manager.
ALTernatively, there's SuperF4 which forces programs to be closed even if they are not responding for whatever reason. Approach with caution, though - there are some potential side effects iirc.
There is an app called SuperF4 which basically kills process you are in. So in game if you die by a naked with a waterpipe while being fully geared all you have to do is press ctrl + alt + F4 and your game closes instantly. I cannot play any FPS games without this app. Must have download
Sorry if I'm a few days late. But I use a program called SuperF4. Basically it's alt-f4 on steroids. Just do Ctrl+Alt+F4 and it'll kill the current app.
https://stefansundin.github.io/superf4/ Had to use it for a certain game that thought it was too important to be alt f4'd.
Don't forget Super F4 ( https://stefansundin.github.io/superf4/ ) Everyone knows what Alt+F4 does and what a hastle it is when a program 'declines'. So this little program will force it by pressing ctrl+alt+F4
Also if you have multiple monitors, you might want to get a manager for it if you do not like the default windows one. A friend of mine uses MultiMon and is very happy with it.
Do not forget about Java runtime
And probably .net
Oh and an anti-virus program that is nice and sits in the corner and generally doesn't fuck with anything.
Super F4 is great for games that freeze up when you try to close them, or any other dodgy programs. Gives an upgrade to Alt+F4 (Ctrl+Alt+F4) that kills any program. Don't use it on the desktop!
In another topic yesterday i suggested people on PC to install this little program: Super Alt F4 Unlike the normal Alt F4 this kills the program right away (when pressing CTRL - ALT - F4 instead). Just as if you would go to the taskmanager for when a program hangs. That way you can restart the game even quicker.
You know how when you hit 'alt-f4' and some programs outright ignore it? Or even worse, they fucking execute some painfully long 'close' process (looking at you, Battlefield)? Or when a program crashes and you have to hunt for the process to terminate it completely?
Super-F4 kills the process, instantly closing literally anything. It's fucking AWESOME.
Not an explanation but a tip: I use SuperF4 for that. When i play Cities Skylines for instance, it always stops responding when closing normally. So instead of going to the taskmanager to close it, i simply press CTRL ALT F4, kills any program you want to leave instantly.
I have the same issue, on Windows 10 STILL. Had it on windows 7 and 8.1 for multiple systems. Also a lot of older games do this when running in fullscreen.
Two solutions:
Either use SuperF4 Which adds a new global shortcut to ctrl+alt+F4 which acts the same as using end task from task manager for the active window. I recommend linking a shortcut to it to your startup folder (so it always starts on startup) since the program doesn't do this automatically, and you want to have it always ready.
Or use ctrl+shift+esc to bring up task manager (hidden by the hung program) then use the windows key to show the task bar and mouse over the task manager icon and then onto the preview to use aero peek to show the window while the cursor is on it. While keeping the cursor over the window to keep it visible and active, use the arrow keys and tab to navigate to the process you wish to delete and hit the delete key and enter to end it.
Solution 1 is much much easier and I prefer it.
Maybe look into git tagging to tag versions, to make it easy to switch between versions (for example for testing). You can also populate GitHubs Release page with for example an changelog (you could also include that information in the annotated tag itself, so it won't get "lost" when moving off GitHub or something).
Some tips:
Install it on an SSD if you have it
Make sure to unpark all your CPUs, you can use this to do so - http://www.coderbag.com/programming-c/disable-cpu-core-parking-utility
Download System Explorer, it's a program that can allow you to permanently set .exe processes to always be high. (Right click Dayz's exe when running, set process priority to High, right click exe again and check "Permanent")
Go onto your nVidia Control panel and add DayZ's exe, set the Power Management Mode to "Prefer Maximum Performance"
Check in your nVidia Control Panel that your graphics processor is set to your nVidia graphics by default and not your integrated graphics
Unfortunately I don't think there is anything to do this built into Windows. Some software like system explorer can do it but you can also create shortcuts that will launch it with a specific priority
Okay, that crash seems to be happening in something called qipcap.dll, which appears to be from something called "Websense Data Endpoint". Uninstalling that should stop the crashes.
> rkcl.exe
http://systemexplorer.net/file-database/file/rkcl-exe
This lists the file as having been discovered yesterday, so whatever it is seems recent. There's no corporate signature or stuff, so who knows what it comes from?
If you want to be sure about the process who take/steal CPU time use http://systemexplorer.net/ to clearly see when you move your mouse what is the process that use CPU time... http://systemexplorer.net/onlinehelp.php?t=processes
Let me know after that I will be more able to help you to resolve it !
Your best chance is to find some task manager alternative. I just tried this one (I downloaded the portable version) and it has it.
Weirdly enough, Process Explorer (the best one around) doesn't seem to have that column.
Glances?
https://nicolargo.github.io/glances/
It can both work in a terminal or export its data to a Web UI if need be. And most current Linux distributions already have it in their repositories, or even ship with it out of the box.
To get health/performance stats, I strongly recommend glances: https://nicolargo.github.io/glances/
As others have said, to do stuff like restart, you could easily set up ssh scripts and whatnot, but as I don't have that set up, I don't really have good examples for that.
Well, it is true that if the code is run in a browser, it may not really matter all that much but there still has to be OS specific codes in it.
Personally, I never have any taskbar or menubar visible, they are always set to autohide so this popunder would not work, it would be visible and I'm always running Glances in a terminal.
If netdata won’t do try Glances. It uses Psutil for gathering stats. Although I’ve never tried it in docker I know there is installation instructions for docker.
Edit: here’s the link
You might want to have a look at Glances. It's not a perfect match for what you want, but it comes pretty close. There's a built-in web server mode, so you can access it from other systems on the network without needing to RDP in. The only downside is that it doesn't collect historical information, though it can export data to something like an InfluxDB/Grafana stack for collection and graphing.
> I currently use zsh with oh-my-zsh, zsh syntax highlighting and thefuck.
I also use antigen because I find it simpler to use. You just edit a few lines in .zshrc and done!
> One good thing is that fish is nice enough to tell you what it doesn't like, and in many cases will tell you how to fix it.
Yes, I like that feature from fish just as I like the way completions work. Plus, it comes with many features of zsh plugins out of the box.
> I guess you really need to ask yourself what zsh is lacking, and if fish has features that will be meaningful to you in your workflow.
I could say for sure that I would have jumped to fish if there was no zsh, but the advantages of fish is that it simply works: just install fish and edit the configuration file, done! That means it's easier to use in remote computers.
Anyway, the real reason I'd like to check newer shells is to see if I can make my work in the terminal easier: just like zsh is miles better than bash, there are still features that zsh lacks… better parallel support, more informative top (not text heavy, more like htop), better text styling (including using images) and printing an image (even videos?) to the terminal without opening a X window.
Ssh is really the easiest way to go, with htop doing most everything you asked for.
Htop as an easy system monitor.
Adding alias remine='/etc/init.d/minecraft restart' to your bash.rc will make things easier as well.
Using Process Hacker I was able to see the miner without it stopping by itself when I opened the Task Manager, I found the process using too much resources when I wasn’t even mining, if you hover the process it shows you the location and if it runs a command line, which one, so I went to the location, terminated the top process with all the tree processes, and deleted it from my PC. There is probably still some root on my PC or something that I can’t see but I haven’t seen any activity yet, I recommend resetting the PC, I just didn’t do it because I’m too lazy to reinstall everything.
This is an excellent post.
Just wanted to add that you can use Process Hacker 2 to monitor cycle wasting and excessive context switching of individual application threads.
PH2 is an invaluable application, and I'd suggest installing it to anyone interested in submitting more contextual and slightly more useful bug reports.
per latest method to gather the autopatchhk link.
- you need process hacker
- run genshin impact launcher.exe on background (post update a.k.a when the launcher.exe allows you to download newer patch like 1.1.1 in future)
- open process hacker
- looks for launcher.exe with paimon icon
- right click > properties > memory tab
- click "Strings" button form on top right > string search box > press "OK"
- click "Filter" button bottom left > Contains.. > "autopatch" keyword in the search box.
You should be able to see the official result download link stated with one of the many addresses. pic for clarity
IMPORTANT: some games will deem process hacker as malicious tool and could result you as ban.. (idk about the details so let's close your process hacker once you finished using it.)
Fíjate si no estás haciendo nada y el cpu está al palo
Podes ver procesos ocultos con https://processhacker.sourceforge.io/
Igual los nuevos mineros dejan de minar cuando detectan que abrís un examinador de procesos, precisamente para ocultarse
That screenshot is nearly 3 months old.
Got anything newer?
40.67.254.36 belongs to Microsoft and is one of the IP addresses that make up the Windows Notification Service.
Access port 443 on that IP (the one your firewall/IDS says the RST packets are coming from) and you'll be presented with a valid certificate for *.wns.windows.com (which will be rejected because the certificate is for the domain name only, not the IP).
This makes all the information in the background of the screenshot pretty much a red herring from an overzealous security program.
107.79.227.34 belongs to AT&T Mobility and appears to be a user in/near Atlanta.
That's kind of interesting.
Process Explorer or Process Hacker would be able to give you the full command line used to start the rundll32.exe process, the startup directory, and the open file handles for the process, so you could track down what made that connection attempt.
Again, if the screenshot weren't showing 3-month-old data.
Freezes and stutters in F4 can be a lot of different things, in my experience fucking with mipmap use or texture load distance can cause it.
If you're using the 58gb HD DLC on a single, mechanical drive you'll probably stutter a lot, too.
For example (Don't use this, unless you know what you're doing.):
iTextureUpgradeDistance1=7500 iTextureUpgradeDistance0=5000 iTextureDegradeDistance1=7500 iTextureDegradeDistance0=5000
Leads to: this for me with 32gb of ram and two 8gb video cards, with F4 on it 's own raid array. Despite it being playable with high average FPS it stutters as it's constantly jackhammering my drives for textures it's not, and never will properly preload.
Godrays can do it, also. To check that just open the console and type gr off, if it stops lagging and stuttering, it's their fault.
Another wildly common issue is mods that change trees, move cars, add doors, building interiors and basically any sort of world edit breaking the precomb/vis stuff, and hardware doesn't exist yet to handle F4 at tolerable FPS in the denser bits of boston without it.
One more thing to check is GPU drivers, they could be crashing and recovering. Does F4 freeze (Use this to check ram load, CPU utilization) as in, it's CPU usage drops for like 2% for the duration, then once it recovers it's back to normal, or does the screen go black and reappear?
The only time I've had W10 flag something, it marked patchers as W.32/HackTool and keygens as W.32/Keygen, as expected. I manually allow these apps to run for my installs and run Process Hacker after a post-install reboot to make sure nothing got left behind.
You can use Process Explorer to identify the window. Explanation of how here.
This will tell you what process/program created the popups so that you can either uninstall or carry on with troubleshooting that application.
It's actually very lightweight. Aside from the Scintilla editing component contained in SciLexer.dll, it only loads OS components.
https://i.imgur.com/bwAhWyX.png
You can see for yourself in Process Explorer. Just use View → Lower Pane View → DLLs. You'll see in my screenshot the reality isn't as rosy, besides Notepad++, its plugins (which aren't protected yet, even when they're coming from Don himself), the system DLLs (most protected by Windows against tempering during runtime) and the components of the C++ library there's also Office 2010 components injected via the SharePoint shell extension.