Comments on: Replacing Task Manager with Process Explorer in Vista

By: Yogesh Shinde

Yogesh Shinde — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:16:50 +0000

Great tip! A simple tweak with a huge payoff.
it was a woderful experience when i came to know aout the issue and then all my 99 % issues were resolved.

By: yogesh

yogesh — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:15:30 +0000

it was a woderful experience when i came to know aout the issue and then all my 99 % issues were resolved.

By: dingens

dingens — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 07:51:07 +0000

In order to start proecess explorer in elevated mode just go to the mentioned registry key and edit the debugger key, by extending the content with ‘/e’ e.g.
“c:\users\geek\bin\processexplorer\procexp.exe” /e
AS soon as you start Proecess Explorer you will be ask for elevation.
Handy if you need to know all details on your PC

By: sahlgoode

sahlgoode — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 02:01:23 +0000

Having Process Explorer on your box, is almost as great as having HTG added to your bookmarks!

By: Davide Baroncelli

Davide Baroncelli — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 23:09:00 +0000

Yes, I just tried with 11.02 and it does not work. Weird.

By: jd2066

jd2066 — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 22:33:46 +0000

Did you try using Process Explorer v11.02 to replace task manager?
Replacing task manager works without the need for this sudo approach in v11.02 as it starts in a non elevated mode.

By: Davide Baroncelli

Davide Baroncelli — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 21:18:28 +0000

Well, it should support replacing it, but in my case it doesn’t work (elevation required), and using this sudo approach only works the first time (then procexp seems to erase the sudo part). Sigh.

By: jd2066

jd2066 — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 06:11:23 +0000

This tip is now longer needed as the latest version of Process Explorer (v11.02) supports replacing Task Manager in Vista.

By: Bcell

Bcell — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 16:51:43 +0000

That’s weird. It only works 1 time for me. After modifying the reg, ProcessExplorer starts when I start TaskManager (right click on task bar), but once ProcessExplorer is started, it mods the reg key, removing the sudo cmd. The next time I try to start TaskManager, I’m back to step 1.

Anyone else see this?

Another problem: I lose the ability to start TaskManager (or its replacement) using ctrl+shift+esc.

By: The Geek

The Geek — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 14:59:14 +0000

The problem is that you can’t run the process explorer without it being elevated… when you run Task Manager, it runs by default in non-elevated mode, so that’s why you have to use the sudo command to allow elevation before it’ll work.