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FreezingFire · **Admin Team** Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 3508

This might be a good way to learn about the built-in tools of Windows. A simple to advanced task manager could be built by using existing windows tools such as tasklist.exe and taskkill.exe to manage running processes. A memory and CPU monitoring tab could be built using VDSCPU.DLL (part of VDSDLL3.DLL) and using the scope or level elements (for VDS versions that don't have the scope or level element, I think it is available in the VDSELM.DLL.)

I don't know if this would work on operating systems other than Windows XP because it might not already have the tools, but it could still be possible to do this. Smile

FreezingFire · **Admin Team** Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 3508

Here is a basic task manager...

Dr. Dread · Posted: Mon Oct 21, 2002 9:27 pm Post subject:

Hi, FF

tasklist.exe + taskkill.exe are not on my XP system. Just so you know that these files are maybe not
standard in XP distributions.

Greetz
Dread

FreezingFire · **Admin Team** Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 3508

Hmmm... I will check on my XP Home computer...right now I am using XP Professional.

Did you look in your C:\Windows\SYSTEM32 folder?

Try this to see if they exist:

Dr. Dread · Posted: Mon Oct 21, 2002 9:51 pm Post subject:

I had already done a search on my entire Win drive - they aren't there. I use XP Home here, so you might
have stumpled upon a diff there.

Dread

PGWARE · **Web Host** Joined: 29 Dec 2001 Posts: 1564

I'm also using XP Home and those 2 files don't exist. Used the windows search feature for anything named task and those two files didn't show.

Tommy · Posted: Tue Oct 22, 2002 5:33 pm Post subject:

On Windows XP Professional for me both files do exist and are functional in the way you described.

Skit3000 · Posted: Sat May 01, 2004 2:18 pm Post subject:

For the people who are wanting to develop a kind of Task Manager in the future: VDS now has the killtask function which does the same as the program described by FreezingFire... Smile

FreezingFire · **Admin Team** Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 3508

Yes, and also LIST TASKLIST

Skit3000 · Posted: Sat May 01, 2004 7:19 pm Post subject:

While we are on the subject: if I have virusses or spyware, I make VDS programs to shut them down and to fix the registry until my virusscanner recognizes the virus/spyware. Unfortunatly, the killtask command won't work always because programs are looping or something. Does somebody know an API which can prevent this and which does always close a task? I looked at TerminateProcess, but I couldn't find out how to set the "PROCESS_TERMINATE access" right... Sad

jules · Posted: Sat May 01, 2004 9:13 pm Post subject:

I wrote an antivirus called Tech-Protect in VDS. You'll find it on my website, though I don't promote it particularly. It uses the F-Prot DOS scanner to do the virus checking, and it includes an FTP updater for it. It really works great for me. F-Prot for DOS is free for personal use but I bought a license which was something like $30 for up to 25 computers.

If Tech-Protect detects a virus in memory it will give you the option to terminate it and will remove the registry entries. It uses the KILLTASK command to terminate it. There shouldn't be a problem with that unless the virus was run as a service, and I don't think there are any viruses that do. The only viruses you'll have trouble with are the ones that run two processes, which restart each other if one is terminated.

I'd be interested to see what people think of my VDS antivirus.

Skit3000 · Posted: Sun May 02, 2004 11:13 am Post subject:

Right now I have some kind of new virus, which runs programs called "****_up.exe". When using the "list tasklist" command, I do get the proper names and process IDs, but VDS isn't able to close the programs... Sad

Btw. Jules, I'll try your virusscan in a few moments... Smile

FreezingFire · **Admin Team** Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 3508

I spent all yesterday cleaning off a friend's computer that was amazingly
infested with spyware and viruses. I really am proud to say that I used
VDS several times to fix things - for example, a virus had disabled the
task manager and prevented me from opening the registry. So I used
VDS to list the tasks and I killed them one by one until the right process
was killed, then I was able to go into the registry editor and fix many
problems. I love VDS for these little uses it has along with the powerful
power it has. Very Happy

bbelcher · Contributor Joined: 30 Jul 2002 Posts: 172

I think calling this dll would do the trick. But my limited API programing skills wouldnt let me knock out an example in a reasonable amount of time. I'm sure one of you guys could handle this without beating your heads againt the wall.

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http://www.vbaccelerator.com/home/VB/Tips/Getting_Process_Information_Using_PSAPI/article.asp
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Skit3000 · Posted: Sun May 02, 2004 5:58 pm Post subject:

Nice DLL! I'll take a look soon... Smile