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Saturday, 23 October 2010

Beta version rewrite of 'manage all users' vs. 'manage current user'

Posted on 19:08 by Unknown
As we know, Process Lasso (in its robustness) allows you to configure it so that an individual instance of the core engine manages ALL user processes, *or* configure it so that each user has his or her own instance of the core engine managing only his or her processes.

Well, after optimizing this code in the current BETA, I ran into problems during testing in XP. Depending on how fast certain services start during bootup, the username may not initially be available. In fact, if you have your XP or 2K system in a tweaked state, perhaps it won't be able to resolve the username at all. This caused some problems -- namely that at first reboot the process list might be empty or incomplete (until you restarted Process Lasso).

I am working on this problem now, getting the code straight for Windows 2000 through Windows 7. I'll be done soon, but until then any user affected (their process list is empty, or near empty) should probably just restart Process Lasso after you start up your PC. I have issued a new beta that forces a showing of all processes, no matter which ones are actually managed by the core engine. However, a better update is pending that properly shows the processes that are managed by the core engine (only).

Of course, in Windows Vista and Windows 7, there is a second variable to the equation; whether or not Process Lasso runs elevated to also manage elevated processes of the current user, or elevated processes of any user.

I must admit, I have an unrealistic expectation for my code to be perfect the first go-round. Must be over confidence, lol. I want even my beta versions to always be reliable, and I really won't ever settle for less. That's why this is an immediate priority.
The last final version, v3.84.8, is NOT affected by this problem. It manages processes slightly differently in multi-user environments. Again, please use it until I declare v4 released and ready.
At this time, I can honestly not recommend anyone update to the newer beta unless you are wanting to help me beta test it. It simply isn't 'there' yet, and won't be until I get finished -- whenever that is. Trust me when I say I am more eager than you. I am so close.. but the last few footsteps can't be skipped and we call the race won. No, we race to the very end. Who am I racing with? I dunno ;p. My point is that almost isn't done.
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