How to use EXtended Task Manager (32-bit Home Edition)

How to use EXtended Task Manager (32-bit Home Edition) Getting started

Processes View
The XTM main window may contain one or two parallel panes.

The upper pane is named "Processes View". This list contains the list of the processes selected according to the XTM configuration based on recent users' choice of configuration. Every process is identified by its original icon, if it exists.

This view is a multicolumn view. You can choose columns to be displayed by the Select Columns command under Options. Every column contains specific information regarding its specific process, e.g. the Handles column shows the number of handles currently allocated per application – and functions as a test developed by your application for memory leaks. For a full list of the various columns and their meaning look under the Select Columns topic.

You can easily sort this view by clicking on one of the columns. The sorting order of the columns is indicated by and  signs for decrement and increment sorting respectively.

The Processes View can contain different types of applications based on the Filters selected by the users in the previous XTM Configuration session.

The Highlighting feature is used to divide between process types. Read more about highlighting The Processes View is refreshed according the XTM Configuration settings – see the Update Speed section for more information.

Right mouse click menu options (including process menu ones)

Hexadecimal Process ID Enable/Disable display Process Identifiers as hexadecimal numbers.

Copy Open Containing Folder Depends Show the process' executable dependencies via Dependency Walker.This menu item is invisible when the Dependency Walker is not registered in the computer. Set Affinity

This menu item is available only on a computer with multiple or hyper-threaded processors.

Set Privileges

Debug Process Allows user to attach the selected process to the default debugging tool for debugging. This option is valid only in workstations where this environment has been installed.

Suspend/Resume Process

Terminate Process This command will terminates the Process and all of its Threads. Please, be attentive with using this command because inattentive usage can cause system instability and even bring about crashes and loss of data. Imprudent use of this command can make your system unstable.

Terminate Process Tree This command will repeat the Terminate Process command for this process and all its children processes throughout the whole process tree. Imprudent use of this command can make your system unstable.

Bring To Top Bring windows owned by the selected process to the foreground.

Go to Parent This command will determine the process parent and select it in Processes View; unless the current filter prohibits display of the Parent Process due to previously defined Filter criteria.

Add to Filter Add selected process to filter. This menu item is visible only if the Processes Filter is Off.

Remove from Filter Remove selected process to filter. This menu item is visible only if the Processes Filter is On.

Terminate All This command will terminate all the displayed in process view processes. This menu item is visible only if filter is on.

COM+ Application This popup menu item is visible only if the selected process is a COM+ Application. It contains the next menus:

Stop COM+ Application Initiates shutdown of a COM+ Application process.

Restart COM+ Application Restarts the selected COM+ Application process.

COM+ Application Properties Will display COM+ Application Properties form.

Properties Will display Process Properties form.

Main form Toolbar commands

The toolbar contains those commands associated with the Processes View that are most useful, and which coincide with the commands in the Right Click Menu. Below is the list of those toolbar commands that were not described in the Right click Mouse section:

Refresh Now Refreshes all the views of the XTM application, causing the whole processes information to be reloaded.

Find Module/Handle/File/Registry Key/Window/Service/Connection Opens find form allowing the user to search for different types of items inside - XTM views. This button is a dynamic drop down button with seven options. Every selected option is automatically recorded to the function's memory for the next time the user accesses it. For more details, see XTM Searching Functionality.

Turn On/Off Filter Turns On/Off using Process View Filters.

Show/Hide Toggles the Bottom Pane – Process Details Pane.

Main Status bar fields

Status bar may contain the next data fields:

Processes Number of processes in processes view. If the processes are filtered, this number is markered by (*) Objects Number of objects in processes details view. If the process details are filtered, this number is markered by (*).

CPU Usage The percentage of time the processor is working. This counter is a primary indicator of processor activity.

Commit Charge Commit Charge Total / Commit Charge Limit.

Tracing Status

Process Details View
The XTM main window may contain one or two parallel panes. The upper pane is named "Processes View". The bottom pane is named "Process Details View".

The processes view contains eleven views. Every view concentrates on a specific group of information units related to the process selected in the upper pane. As with the upper view in the Processes View, the Process Details View also has multiple columns. Columns can be displayed by clicking on the Select Columns command under Options. Every column contains specific information regarding the process detail unit, e.g. the Module's Path column includes the path where specific Module resides. For a full list of the columns and their meaning look under the Select Columns topic.

The Process Details View is not directly subject to filters, and shows details of the currently selected process in the upper pane without applying any filter.

In all the views the Highlighting feature is used to show reallocated objects.

The Process Details View is refreshed according to when the Processes View is refreshed.

This section covers the next sub topics:

Process Tree Modules Threads Handles Files Registry Locks Memory GDI Windows COM+ Components Services Environment Variables Network Net Performance

XTM Searching Functionality
One of the main functionalities of Warecase XTM is its searching engine. Using it, the user can easily find the required resource and apply specific operations on it. Every search type if going through all the processes memory space and is searching for the required resource using the selected by user searching criteria, without considering selected XTM filters configuration.

Next searching options are available:

Find Module Find Handle Find File Find Registry Key Find Window Find Service Find Connection

Starting New Tasks
One of the main features of the eXtended Task Monitor is the ability to start new tasks of different types, including tasks that can be run only through specific development tools. XTM provides a single point of access for this purpose.

The available Start New Task commands are as follows:

Start Program (Run) Start Service Start COM+ Application