Free Task manager (WM2003SE & WM2005)

[dotfred]

TaskMgr v2.9(Release date 27 dec 2007)

A new version of my TaskMgr is available...:cool:

Release 2.9:

- icon to tray can be disabled
- tab switching hardware button association can be disabled
- register/deregister a dll
- install provisionning xml
- start/stop svc from command line
- fix bug in tab switching when tab is hidden
- added address bar in regedit
- fixed notifications toolbar
- fixed processes progressbar not disappearing
- added hepas in process details
- fixed bug in process details threads
- added change priority of threads in process details
- added windows messages and known named ones
- show details from applications
- cpu usage sorted descending by default
- fixed bugs in regedit
- fixed bugs in changing flags of services/devices


Release 2.8:

- version leaked, so see v2.9


Release 2.7

- fixed some minor bugs in regedit (tjlabais and StenaviN)
- added routing table (netstat -r) on Netstats Tab (marosh)
- added close all buttons on Applications Tab (keethar)
- fixed close menu item from Applications context menu (keethar)
- added Removal of SCRIPT:0x000 events on Notifications Tab (jafre)
- added command line parameters for Notfications duplicates and SCRIPT:0x000 events removal (jafre)
- added all existing command line parameters on the About Tab Release 2.6

- changed the regedit toolbar (added Favorites/add Favorites buttons and merged cut/copy/paste in one button menu)
- view/edit mui reg values
- import/export multi_sz/mui_sz as RGU (for rgu export flag should be set in regedit menu)
- some minor bugs fixed in regedit
- command line added to process path
- Last active tab is reloaded at start if no parameter provided (flag should be set in options menu)

Release 2.5

- fix for problem reported by tjlabais(import of type hex(n) keys, no reg type is saved but the data are correct hopefully)

Release 2.4

- fix for problem reported by StenaviN on buzzdev(import of binary data)

- added favorites to registry editor
In order to create a favorite, you have to select a key first and add it via the context menu.
In order to use a favorite, you have to double click on it. If you want to delete or rename, do it via context menu of favorite.
Release 2.3

- fix for problem reported by vint_ (import of 0xffffffff)
- fix for keyboard alignment under WM2003SE on exit
- Option to switch between minimize and exit buttons
- Automatic/Manual load of devices (wm2k5 only)
- Added Suspend and Reset PPC shortcuts

ps.: the executable available here are UPXed, if you need the unUPXed versions, just go on the following link.

For more details and history, see here:

www.dotfred.net (http://www.dotfred.net/)

Cheers,

.Fred

ps.: comments are welcome! ;)

[thaihugo]

I love this program, but version 2.0 doesn'T display drivers and services as it was in v 1.9 on my universal. Do you think you can solve this?

Thanks a lot

[dotfred]

I love this program, but version 2.0 doesn'T display drivers and services as it was in v 1.9 on my universal. Do you think you can solve this?

Thanks a lot
Well I made a little mix when building for wm2003se and wm2005... :(

Anyway, it's fixed, deeply sorry for inconvenients! :o

I post the fixed version immediately.

Cheers,

.Fred

[bluecream4]

Thank you very much .fred :)

Use it very useful for me .. ;)


Big Thank:D

[jdoherty76]

Super duper Fred much appreciated and covers WM5...cheers

[thaihugo]

Thanks for the quick update!

[faria]

the best task manager ever.

would be possible to add the option for when closing the app.,actually close?

[dotfred]

the best task manager ever.

would be possible to add the option for when closing the app.,actually close?
I don't understand what you're asking? Which app. are you talking about?
Can you elaborate, please?

Thanks,

.Fred

[faria]

I don't understand what you're asking? Which app. are you talking about?
Can you elaborate, please?

Thanks,

.Fred
I mean in place of just minimizing the task manager to the tray when you close it [by pressing the close button]. An option to close it without minimized to the tray.
I know you can close by going to options.
This is a suggestion .no big deal.

[dotfred]

I mean in place of just minimizing the task manager to the tray when you close it [by pressing the close button]. An option to close it without minimized to the tray.
I know you can close by going to options.
This is a suggestion .no big deal.
It was the case in the past, but a lot of people preferred to have the TM minimized. Another possibility is to install a close feature like Spb PocketPlus, Wisbar, MagicButton, which allow you to really close an app when you click on the close button.

Cheers,

.Fred

[Rudegar]

maybe he mean that he want your task manager to handle the closing of other applications when they are minimized
like pocket plus and the rest does
and not close your task manager when he minimize it ?

[woschirmer]

Hi Dotfred,

I found a little bug in V.2.1. When I export a key from the registry (in this case a DWORD) the hex value is written into the .reg file. But when I import the .reg file the value is read as a dec value.

Wolfgang

Btw, thanks for tis really great app.

[dotfred]

Hi Dotfred,

I found a little bug in V.2.1. When I export a key from the registry (in this case a DWORD) the hex value is written into the .reg file. But when I import the .reg file the value is read as a dec value.

Wolfgang

Btw, thanks for tis really great app.
You're completely right, well seen! :o
I forgot to change the base, stupid of me!:confused:

Anyway, here is the 2.2 (first post updated.)

[dotfred]

I mean in place of just minimizing the task manager to the tray when you close it [by pressing the close button]. An option to close it without minimized to the tray.
I know you can close by going to options.
This is a suggestion .no big deal.
What I can do, is let the user have the choice from the options dialog.
So either having the "Minimize" soft key and "Exit" in the menu, or having the "Exit" soft key, and "Minimize" in the menu.
What do you think?

Cheers,

.Fred

[gravejoker]

dotfred
The installer doesnt work for me. I keep on getting that it's not a valid Win32 application. Can you please help?

ps. I have tried to installed the unUPXed ver too but I get the same error. I am running WinXP.

[dotfred]

dotfred
The installer doesnt work for me. I keep on getting that it's not a valid Win32 application. Can you please help?

ps. I have tried to installed the unUPXed ver too but I get the same error. I am running WinXP.
This app is dedicated to pocket pcs running Windows Mobile 2003 SE or Windows Mobile 2005. This is absolutely not to do with pcs running WinXp.

Cheers,

.Fred

[vint_]

Value dword:FFFFFFFF is imported as 7FFFFFFF when I import from .reg-file.
for example, import this .reg-file and look at result:
---------
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Haali\Reader\Parameters]
"LINEIF"=dword:ffffffff
---------

[jdoherty76]

Dotfred a super program but I am relatively new to downloading programs onto my machine. Can you tell me how I get your taskmgr into the my programs section of my Charmer? I can get the exe file anywhere and execute it from here but was wondering if it comes with an icon and can be part of program files. Many thanks once again for a wonderful program..JD76

[trojan9x]

Is there a way to start this application minimized? is there a tag I can add to the shortcut to do this?

[dotfred]

Dotfred a super program but I am relatively new to downloading programs onto my machine. Can you tell me how I get your taskmgr into the my programs section of my Charmer? I can get the exe file anywhere and execute it from here but was wondering if it comes with an icon and can be part of program files. Many thanks once again for a wonderful program..JD76
If you click on the menu, you will see Create Pgm Shortcuts...
The shortcuts will be created (by default) under /Windows/Start Menu/Programs/System

Cheers,

.Fred

[dotfred]

Is there a way to start this application minimized? is there a tag I can add to the shortcut to do this?
When you click on the menu, you can create shortcuts of the program.

One of this shortcut is TM Minimized.lnk

the parameter is /tray

Cheers,

.Fred

[molski]

Hi DotFred,

Right now I am testing a new version of my Molski.Biz Rom.
This new version also includes your TaskManager, do you mind if I release the Rom with your TaskManager in it?


Regards,

Molski

[dotfred]

Hi DotFred,

Right now I am testing a new version of my Molski.Biz Rom.
This new version also includes your TaskManager, do you mind if I release the Rom with your TaskManager in it?


Regards,

Molski
No go ahead, be my guest. ;)
By the way a new release will come out very very soon, so if you want to wait a bit, you will have the latest version (v2.3)

- fix for problem reported by vint_ (import of 0xffffffff)
- fix for keyboard misalignment under WM2003SE
- Option to switch between minimize and exit buttons
- Automatic/Manual load of devices (wm2k5 only)

Cheers,

.Fred

[molski]

Great, please send me a PM when you got the v2.3 for WM5 ready.

I will integrate it immediately.


Regards,

Molski

[trojan9x]

When you click on the menu, you can create shortcuts of the program.

One of this shortcut is TM Minimized.lnk

the parameter is /tray

Cheers,

.Fred


Is it supposed to ask me something when I put a check mark by "Create Pgm Shortcuts?" Checking that doesn't seem to do anything different.

[dotfred]

Is it supposed to ask me something when I put a check mark by "Create Pgm Shortcuts?" Checking that doesn't seem to do anything different.
In fact, when you flag it, the TM will create the shortcuts, even if you delete the shortcuts. When you unflag it, every existing shortcut will be deleted and won't be recreated until you flag the menu item back.
Hope it's clear...

Cheers,

.Fred

[trojan9x]

i just needed to know where the shortcuts were created. i found them. thanks

[jdoherty76]

thanks dotfred..that's one super program... one last thing how do you remove it completly to replace it with the new version. I don't see it in the add/remove programs list? Thanks again..

[dotfred]

thanks dotfred..that's one super program... one last thing how do you remove it completly to replace it with the new version. I don't see it in the add/remove programs list? Thanks again..
Just overwrite the existing, there is nothing to uninstall.

Cheers,

.Fred

[jdoherty76]

thanks again..much appreciated...jd76

[schniesich]

Hi,
thanks for this great application!!!
This is by far the most complete and perfect Task-Manager I have seen.

If you don't mind, I have two sugestions:

1. a possibility to jump to self-defined "Favorites" in Reg.Editor would be great. So that it is possible to quickly jump to a certain reg.-entry.

2. In the "tabs menu" it would be a good visual aid to have a checkmark on the currently active item (or just like usual on WinCE the "left" and "right" arrows)

What do you think?
Thanks again and keep up that work

Carsten.
--
iPAQ hx2490b, german WM5

[miseryshining]

Hi,
1. a possibility to jump to self-defined "Favorites" in Reg.Editor would be great. So that it is possible to quickly jump to a certain reg.-entry.


i second this request, and if possible i'd like to see it realized like this:
custom reg folders in the root below the main registry folders. then you can categorize your registry 'hacks' for audio, bluetooth, speed improvements, etc.

Indeed, a brilliant application that works very well. thanks for the effort!

[nicedude_abad]

Thanks for this. It's super.

[bnycastro]

:) bumping to get updates :)

[faria]

:) bumping to get updates :)
another bump......

[jdoherty76]

Hi dot fred does version 3 when actually installed report itself as version V2.2 when you navigate in menu about??? thanks again for a super program

[rsolomon]

Hi dot fred does version 3 when actually installed report itself as version V2.2 when you navigate in menu about???

My installation of 2.3 reports itself as 2.3.

Richard

[jdoherty76]

Thanks rsolomon..my apologies dotfred must have reloaded wrong version. everything okay now. thanks jd76...

[TheBrit]

Just installed the excellent little app. :cool:

[dotfred]

i second this request, and if possible i'd like to see it realized like this:
custom reg folders in the root below the main registry folders. then you can categorize your registry 'hacks' for audio, bluetooth, speed improvements, etc.

Indeed, a brilliant application that works very well. thanks for the effort!
See first page of the thread, your request has been added!;)

Cheers,

.Fred

[schniesich]

Thanks for the favorites!!!

Carsten.

[dotfred]

Free Task Manager version 2.6 is out!!!

Cheers,

.Fred

[xplode]

I want to congratulate you for creating the best Task manager for Windows Mobile

Thanks a lot

This is an MUST HAVE application

[xan]

I thank You very much for this app. It's state-of-art. I really appreciate Your great work.
Must - have for any PDA power user.

[emmett]

Thanks for a great app!

[CJBS]

Firstly, I'd like to reiterate the praise of others in lauding this excellent App!

Secondly, I'd like to point out a very minor issue - in IPConfig, under "Windows IP Configuration", I have two DNS Servers. There is no carriage return "\n" between the line "DNS Server 1: ..." and "DNS Server 2:..."

Thirdly, I'd like to submit two feature:

a) In the same way as Task Manager on NT gives a Current CPU utilisation graph (in %), it'd be good if the icon for the application could do the same, or, even better, if there was a way to include an icon in the taskbar (not the Today screen bar, as this is not always active) such that this %utilisation could be seen. There could possibly be an option for disabling this so that if not required, extra CPU is not used showing its utilisation.

b) On the CPU Usage listing, it would be good if there was an aggregate time used (per process) such that CPU-hogging apps could be identified without actually being in the Task Manager program. This would work in a similar manner to SysInternals Process Monitor (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/ProcessesAndThreads/ProcessExplorer.mspx)


Keep up the great work!

[jafre]

Free Task Manager version 2.6 is out!!!

Cheers,

.Fred

I dotfred,

First of all, congrats on this app !

I have a sugestion to make, i'm sure most people would like to see implemented in your app:

to have those "script : 0X000..." events, created from missed calls, deleted/removed when you delete duplicate notifications.

Something like Check Notifications from ScaryBear already does.
But with the possibility to run with an option (ex: /d), from a shortcut, in order to be scheduled at some times to automaticaly clean those nasty events that reduce performance of phone's edition.

Is that possible ? Because taskManager v2.3, as is, doesn't remove those "script : 0X000..." ...

regards,
Jaime Freitas

[trinic101]

thanks!!! =)

[bigbop]

Free Task Manager version 2.6 is out!!!
Cheers,
.Fred
A GREAT tool! Thanks!!

When you get the device info section sorted out, can you provide additional info on the devices such as hardware irqs, mem mapped addresses, etc. I'm not referring to the RGY data either. It would be cool if the utility could interrogate the actual hardware setup of the device to search the I/O space.

Thanks again.

[ttangcho]

Free Task Manager version 2.6 is out!!!

Cheers,

.Fred

Wow!!! Thank you very much for the great tool!!

[jafre]

Free Task Manager version 2.6 is out!!!

Cheers,

.Fred



First of all, great 2007 for everybody !



I DotFred,

What do you think of my sugestion above, about those "script : 0X000..." events ?

cheers,
Jaime Freitas

[dotfred]

First of all, great 2007 for everybody !



I DotFred,

What do you think of my sugestion above, about those "script : 0X000..." events ?

cheers,
Jaime Freitas
Well, if you want, I can add it to the remove duplicates, even if these events aren't duplicates...

Cheers,

.Fred

[gizmo92]

Free Task Manager version 2.6 is out!!!

Cheers,

.Fred

Thanks for this great tool.

I have still a trouble but i am not an expert so if someone can help it will be great :

Time to time the icon diseapear and i have to do a soft reset to find it again.

If not original menu from today plugin at the bottom is mixed with menu from tskmgr (near the icon when it is visible)

i'm not sure but i think this happen following a screen switch off.

tks in advance

[keethar]

First of all this is an awesome tool, DotFred. Congrats!

I think I found one minor bug though. I'm not sure if it is already posted somewhere, but here it goes:
Closing an app in the applications tab using the context menu doesn't work. Fortunately, hitting the close button at the bottom of the screen does work, so it's no biggy.

Feat. request:
A "close all" button or context item in the apps tab. Most task managers include this, and I don't think it's in there already.

mvg ;) ,
Keeth

[dotfred]

First of all this is an awesome tool, DotFred. Congrats!

I think I found one minor bug though. I'm not sure if it is already posted somewhere, but here it goes:
Closing an app in the applications tab using the context menu doesn't work. Fortunately, hitting the close button at the bottom of the screen does work, so it's no biggy.

Feat. request:
A "close all" button or context item in the apps tab. Most task managers include this, and I don't think it's in there already.

mvg ;) ,
Keeth
Hi Keeth,

I added your request and some others, see first thread for update...

Happy new year!:cool:

Cheers,

.Fred

[jafre]

Well, if you want, I can add it to the remove duplicates, even if these events aren't duplicates...

Cheers,

.Fred

Hi,
you`re the greatest !
With command line options and all !
Thanks a very lot !
I'll try it latter.

my best regards,
Jaime de Freitas

[JezD]

hi, what development language is this written in? what tools do you use?

thanks

Jez

[dotfred]

hi, what development language is this written in? what tools do you use?

thanks

Jez
c++ is the language
visual studio 2005 + Windows mobile sdk for development
emulator+pda for testing

Cheers,

.Fred

[bigbop]

I've been using this great utility and I'm eagerly waiting for the device manager section but there is a small problem with the SIP selection panel. When you're prompted to enter data, the SIP appears just to the left of the centreline of the display, half way up.
I'm running Wm2003SE on an Dell X50v, so I don't know if this is an OS issue.

[dotfred]

I've been using this great utility and I'm eagerly waiting for the device manager section but there is a small problem with the SIP selection panel. When you're prompted to enter data, the SIP appears just to the left of the centreline of the display, half way up.
I'm running Wm2003SE on an Dell X50v, so I don't know if this is an OS issue.
I don't have a device running WM2003SE, I'm developping and testing WM2K3se on the emulator.
On the emulator, I don't see any problem, but....
Is it everytime, everywhere, and if not on which screen, sequence...

Cheers,

.Fred

[bartito]

hi,
please, what's the difference intra the upxed and unupxed versions ?

[LordDeath]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UPX

upx saves memory (not ram) and can improve loading times on slow SD cards. plus upx is cooler :cool:

[kostavan]

Hello
I have a question.
I start the program, it come up and am minimized.
what wrong do I make?

[dotfred]

Hello
I have a question.
I start the program, it come up and am minimized.
what wrong do I make?
Hi kostavan,

When a window from another application becomes active, TaskMgr is minimized to the tray.

So maybe, there is another application on your device that wants to stay active, when you launch TM. I don't see any other possible reason.

Cheers,

.Fred

[bigbop]

I don't have a device running WM2003SE, I'm developping and testing WM2K3se on the emulator.
On the emulator, I don't see any problem, but....
Is it everytime, everywhere, and if not on which screen, sequence...
Cheers,
.Fred
I did a little more testing of this on the X50v I have. It only happens in the 240x320 resolution. In the 480x640 rez, it works fine, so the problem is most likely in an area that senses lower screen resolution. Also, the X50v uses the Intel 2700 graphics chip, so I don't know if that has any affect on the problem.

Let me know if you'd like me to run any further tests.

[sids911]

The software is mighty pleasing! Very powerful app....I am running the new crossbow and I can vouch that it works perfectly!

--Sid

[dotfred]

The software is mighty pleasing! Very powerful app....I am running the new crossbow and I can vouch that it works perfectly!

--Sid
Thanks! ... and great to hear (read) that!

Cheers,

.Fred

[LordDeath]

@dotfred:
i have a question about the "memory usage" in the processes view:

when i open for example pocketplayer, its process consumes 650kb according to your taskmanager. but all other apps show, that the free ram is much lower than the new taken 650kb.

now when i use the processes view from "sktools" it shows the following:
pocketplayer.exe size: 6877184bytes heap size: 1477152bytes

when i exit the pocketplayer app, my free ram gains around 6,8mb. so the "size" value in sktools seems to be the real ram-consumption.
and what is showing your application now?

[truedim]

I have the same issue with HTC Tytn. Latest Free Task Manager shows incorrect memory usage.

[dotfred]

@dotfred:
i have a question about the "memory usage" in the processes view:

when i open for example pocketplayer, its process consumes 650kb according to your taskmanager. but all other apps show, that the free ram is much lower than the new taken 650kb.

now when i use the processes view from "sktools" it shows the following:
pocketplayer.exe size: 6877184bytes heap size: 1477152bytes

when i exit the pocketplayer app, my free ram gains around 6,8mb. so the "size" value in sktools seems to be the real ram-consumption.
and what is showing your application now?
Hi LordDeath,

I will change it in next release, because you're right, it's not clear what it represents.

In sktools, it shows you all the memory used by the program, so the sum of movable memory blocks and fixed memory blocks.

In TM, I show only fixed memory blocks.

Cheers,

.Fred

[dam]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UPX

upx saves memory (not ram) and can improve loading times on slow SD cards. plus upx is cooler :cool:

Regard to battery life I have a question.
UPX use more power than nonUPX ? :confused:

thanks for you comments:)

dam

[cellneuron]

The regedit part is not compatiable with spb mobile shell. If the regedit is launched from WM5 start menu, the dpad can work (still lose focus at the beginning, need click somewhere using stylus to change focus.), but if launch th regedit from spb menu, the dpad is blocked completely.

It is strange that the dpad works fine in other modular like process and windows.

The one hand operation in regedit is not so good. Don't know how to jump from the upper panel to lower panel without stylus.

[dotfred]

The regedit part is not compatiable with spb mobile shell. If the regedit is launched from WM5 start menu, the dpad can work (still lose focus at the beginning, need click somewhere using stylus to change focus.), but if launch th regedit from spb menu, the dpad is blocked completely.

It is strange that the dpad works fine in other modular like process and windows.

The one hand operation in regedit is not so good. Don't know how to jump from the upper panel to lower panel without stylus.
Well I'm not surprised, SpbSoftware is the specialist for making hard life to other applications.
If you want to work with one hand only, don't forget that you can still use the screen, so by just putting the thumb on the screen you will put focus on one of the controls.

Cheers,

.Fred

[banky8358]

Thank fred.:) :D

[vivi]

Hi .Fred,
Thanks for this great app.
But how can we start a service by shortcut?
I tried write a shoutcut.
34#"\Program Files\TaskMgr.exe" \windows\spsvc.dll
no success.
Please advise.
Thanks in advance.

vivi

[dotfred]

Hi .Fred,
Thanks for this great app.
But how can we start a service by shortcut?
I tried write a shoutcut.
34#"\Program Files\TaskMgr.exe" \windows\spsvc.dll
no success.
Please advise.
Thanks in advance.

vivi
Hi vivi,

How are you? Still playing with your BA?;)

Well, to answer your question, it is not possible for the moment. In order to start a service, you have to do something similar as under Win2k or Winxp, you have to use a specific api to launch the service. So if you want to do it via the command line (or shortcut), I have to add a new parameter to TM to do so. I'm going to add it to my TM todo list then.:rolleyes:

Cheers,

Fred

[vivi]

Thanks .Fred,I will wait for the next release of TM.
Now I am using ASUS P525 for a few months.

Your apps are all great.I love them all.
Thanks again, :-)

vivi

[dotfred]

Thanks .Fred,I will wait for the next release of TM.
Now I am using ASUS P525 for a few months.

Your apps are all great.I love them all.
Thanks again, :-)

vivi
Cool, that's a nice one. I'm waiting for the english version of the ASUS P535, it looks awesome.
I think it will be my next ppc, if no better is coming out in the meantime...:D

Cheers,

Fred

[vivi]

Dear .Fred,
I've just sent you a PM.
If you have time,please kindly have a look at it.
Thanksss..

vivi

[CJBS]

Firstly, I'd like to reiterate the praise of others in lauding this excellent App!

Secondly, I'd like to point out a very minor issue - in IPConfig, under "Windows IP Configuration", I have two DNS Servers. There is no carriage return "\n" between the line "DNS Server 1: ..." and "DNS Server 2:..."

Thirdly, I'd like to submit two feature:

a) In the same way as Task Manager on NT gives a Current CPU utilisation graph (in %), it'd be good if the icon for the application could do the same, or, even better, if there was a way to include an icon in the taskbar (not the Today screen bar, as this is not always active) such that this %utilisation could be seen. There could possibly be an option for disabling this so that if not required, extra CPU is not used showing its utilisation.

b) On the CPU Usage listing, it would be good if there was an aggregate time used (per process) such that CPU-hogging apps could be identified without actually being in the Task Manager program. This would work in a similar manner to SysInternals Process Monitor (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/ProcessesAndThreads/ProcessExplorer.mspx)


Keep up the great work!

Congrats on the new release. Your RegEdit component of the Task Manager successfully handles comments in .reg files (ie, lines starting with ';'). It also works with unicode files. Great stuff.

Would it be possible to have a command-line switch for .reg files, such that double-clicking on a .reg file would (a) launch the task manager, (b) prompt whether to import the file, and (c) if [b] was confirmed, import the file?

Posible switches might be:
/irp "xxx" : imports the specified registry file at path xxx after prompting
/ira "xxx" : automatically imports the specified registry file at path xxx (without prompting)

I'm not sure what your take on multiple command line switches is, but I'd suggest having just a /ir for "import registry" switch (instead of /ira or /irp), and three other optional switches:

/Prompt (to prompt before importing - this switch could in future be used in conjunction with other tasks - if not specified, this would be implied), /NoMesgSuccess (to suppress a dialog confirming the import succeeded or failed), and /NoMesg (to suppress all results - success or failure).

Thanks.

[cellneuron]

Congrats on the new release. Your RegEdit component of the Task Manager successfully handles comments in .reg files (ie, lines starting with ';'). It also works with unicode files. Great stuff.

Would it be possible to have a command-line switch for .reg files, such that double-clicking on a .reg file would (a) launch the task manager, (b) prompt whether to import the file, and (c) if [b] was confirmed, import the file?

Posible switches might be:
/irp "xxx" : imports the specified registry file at path xxx after prompting
/ira "xxx" : automatically imports the specified registry file at path xxx (without prompting)

I'm not sure what your take on multiple command line switches is, but I'd suggest having just a /ir for "import registry" switch (instead of /ira or /irp), and three other optional switches:

/Prompt (to prompt before importing - this switch could in future be used in conjunction with other tasks - if not specified, this would be implied), /NoMesgSuccess (to suppress a dialog confirming the import succeeded or failed), and /NoMesg (to suppress all results - success or failure).

Thanks.

The feature is already there. You just need associate the reg file to task manager. Go to the regedit module of task manager, click the first icon of the toolbar (or the menu) you have the option to associate the reg file with task manager.

[CJBS]

The feature is already there. You just need associate the reg file to task manager. Go to the regedit module of task manager, click the first icon of the toolbar (or the menu) you have the option to associate the reg file with task manager.

You're absolutely right. Thank you. That option adds a link to HKCR\regfile\Shell\Open\Command\
(Default) = "\Windows\TaskMgr.exe" %1

It would be nice to have the extra features regarding suppressing prompts, but they'd probably be low priority at best.

One thing I have noticed though - and this seems to be a shortcoming of all PPC registry programs that I've used - is that they don't support deletion of registry keys. In WindowsNT Registry editor, in a .reg file, for a key preceeded by a "-", the key will be removed. For example, the following script would add a key:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AAA]



... and the following script would remove that same key (note the red minus sign):


Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AAA]



This would be a good fix/feature to add to improve functionality.

[dotfred]

You're absolutely right. Thank you. That option adds a link to HKCR\regfile\Shell\Open\Command\
(Default) = "\Windows\TaskMgr.exe" %1

It would be nice to have the extra features regarding suppressing prompts, but they'd probably be low priority at best.

One thing I have noticed though - and this seems to be a shortcoming of all PPC registry programs that I've used - is that they don't support deletion of registry keys. In WindowsNT Registry editor, in a .reg file, for a key preceeded by a "-", the key will be removed. For example, the following script would add a key:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AAA]



... and the following script would remove that same key (note the red minus sign):


Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AAA]



This would be a good fix/feature to add to improve functionality.

Ok, I will add that to my todo list.

Cheers,

.Fred

[bdaher]

Thanx very much Great App.

[CJBS]

Ok, I will add that to my todo list.

Cheers,

.Fred

Cheers .Fred!

[SSpt]

Just a question...

I have WM5 and when i reset my phone it always start my alarm...

Can i delete all entrance in notifications tab?

What happen if i do this?

[dotfred]

Just a question...

I have WM5 and when i reset my phone it always start my alarm...

Can i delete all entrance in notifications tab?

What happen if i do this?
Some of them are important like replog notifs (activesync), calnot.exe, clocknot.exe and some named events having this face : \\.\Notifications\NamedEvents\XXXXXXX except those beginning by SCRIPT:0x000

Of course, if you remove them is not that bad, some of them are recreated after soft reset, other not and your ppc will still run properly, but you will lose some notifications... of course :D

What I would suggest is:

1) Remove duplicates
2) Remove SCRIPT events
3) disable the rest except replog, clocknot, calnot and \\.\Notifications\NamedEvents\XXXXX notifs
4) soft reset and check if it works
5) try to enable one by one until the problem appears again and remove the suspicious notification when found.

Cheers,

Fred

[SSpt]

I did that, i cleared all notifications that i have except the ones that you talk. After soft reset i went to see it and they were there again.

[dotfred]

I did that, i cleared all notifications that i have except the ones that you talk. After soft reset i went to see it and they were there again.
Well then I suppose there is a soft on your ppc that is launched on startup and that generates these notifications.
Try to find out, and remove it, if possible

Cheers,

Fred

[rsolomon]

I have WM5 and when i reset my phone it always start my alarm...

Perhaps a long shot, but try removing your storage card and resetting - the autostart mechanism sounds a tone on media insertion and launches the autostart app. TomTom loves to install itself this way for instance. If you have non-removeable storage, look for a numeric folder (like 2577\) which contains executable(s) - see if renaming that folder makes you mystery alarm go away.

HTH,
Richard

[SSpt]

Thank you for your help...

I resolved my problem by removing partnership with my pc, then cleaning the notifications and the sync with my pc...

[cellneuron]

Any new version will be out soon? The registry module will exit the task manager once the searching didn't find any result.

[igloo]

Hi Dotfred,

your Task Manager is really wonderful. I am using it on a regular basis. I have one issue which I can't get solved:

Within the Task Manager on the Servies tab I am getting all services listed. It is very handy to be able to start/stop/disable a service (tab&hold).

I would like to write a batch file (mort script) to do the same thing. Therefore I need to know how the commandline would look like. I have played arround with the services.exe but without any result. My test was "\Windows\services.exe stop GLL0:" where GLL0: is the instanciated service which I would like to stop. But it just does nothing.

As your Task Manager is able to perform this "stop" interactively you must have somehow coded this into your application.

Could you point me to a documentation or give me a hint how to manipulate services from the commandline?

Thanks a lot! Igloo

[dotfred]

Hi Dotfred,

your Task Manager is really wonderful. I am using it on a regular basis. I have one issue which I can't get solved:

Within the Task Manager on the Servies tab I am getting all services listed. It is very handy to be able to start/stop/disable a service (tab&hold).

I would like to write a batch file (mort script) to do the same thing. Therefore I need to know how the commandline would look like. I have played arround with the services.exe but without any result. My test was "\Windows\services.exe stop GLL0:" where GLL0: is the instanciated service which I would like to stop. But it just does nothing.

As your Task Manager is able to perform this "stop" interactively you must have somehow coded this into your application.

Could you point me to a documentation or give me a hint how to manipulate services from the commandline?

Thanks a lot! Igloo
Hi Igloo,

You cannot call services.exe with a parameter in order to stop/start a service, you have to use a specific API which is RegisterService to start a service and DeregisterService to stop it (see MSDN for more details).

Cheers,

Fred

[uwashock]

Some of them are important like replog notifs (activesync), calnot.exe, clocknot.exe and some named events having this face : \\.\Notifications\NamedEvents\XXXXXXX except those beginning by SCRIPT:0x000

Of course, if you remove them is not that bad, some of them are recreated after soft reset, other not and your ppc will still run properly, but you will lose some notifications... of course :D

What I would suggest is:

1) Remove duplicates
2) Remove SCRIPT events
3) disable the rest except replog, clocknot, calnot and \\.\Notifications\NamedEvents\XXXXX notifs
4) soft reset and check if it works
5) try to enable one by one until the problem appears again and remove the suspicious notification when found.

Cheers,

Fred
.Fred,

Great program!:) Everything is very useful. Am having one problem with Notifications. How do you enable/disable a notification? There is no tap/hold dialogue; no menu option???

Thanks,
uwashock

[dotfred]

.Fred,

Great program!:) Everything is very useful. Am having one problem with Notifications. How do you enable/disable a notification? There is no tap/hold dialogue; no menu option???

Thanks,
uwashock
You select the items you want to disable, then by clicking on the button with the red circle in the toolbar, you enable/disable the selected notifications.

Cheers,

Fred

[uwashock]

You select the items you want to disable, then by clicking on the button with the red circle in the toolbar, you enable/disable the selected notifications.

Cheers,

Fred

sorry, now i understand. see below. i'm missing icons? please help. thanks again.

39133

[dotfred]

sorry, now i understand. see below. i'm missing icons? please help. thanks again.

39133
On certain devices, programs are not working properly when they are upxed. Just use the unupxed version of the program, the exe is bigger, but it works ok.

Cheers

[snorlax]

Hi everyone,

It is VERY important to wait for 60 seconds or so after the modifications (disabling notifications in my case) so that they are well written in the internal database. Then soft reset with a soft that does it, AND NOT USING THE STYLUS IN THE RESET HOLE.

Dotfred, can you mention this at the beginning of this thread for new readers.
Can you also add a button to soft reset the device with a warning questioning if the user as waited for the 60seconds ?

Thanks anyway, your software solved my reccurring problem of undisplayed notifications !

[meehaa]

best task manager ever seen
big thanks

[uwashock]

On certain devices, programs are not working properly when they are upxed. Just use the unupxed version of the program, the exe is bigger, but it works ok.

Cheers
Just to pass along the results of testing. The unupx'ed WM5 version still results in lost tool icons at the bottom of the Notifications tab. I tried the WM2003SE version and the icons do show at the bottom, but of course the resolution was terrible. I even brute forced VGA the WM2003 version and the icons disappeared. By the way, I'm using an Axim x51v. Again, great app and maybe this can be worked out.

[cellneuron]

Can anybody tell me how to import a registry file without confirmation? I need import a registry file after startup, but I have to click "OK" to confirm it each time.

Thanks a lot.

[Gforce_Ti]

any new updates???? for a great program.

[pdca]

it seems to be a handy tool for me. It is convient to stop the application:)

[rustoss]

Can anybody tell me how to import a registry file without confirmation? I need import a registry file after startup, but I have to click "OK" to confirm it each time.

Thanks a lot.

SKSchema!!! through script

[johndawg]

Awesome tool!!! Thank you very much!!!

[saman-cz]

Hi Dotfred,
i've used this cool app on my PPC and now i miss such tool on smartphone. I was even forced to write simple tool just for me for notification queue managing. But i don't want to write a similar tool with the same functionality (rather subset of functions). Any change to have a version for smartphones?
If you would have any question regarding smartphone UI to analyze your costs, feel free to contact me..

[mistrix]

...How do you enable/disable a notification? There is no tap/hold dialogue; no menu option???
On certain devices, programs are not working properly when they are upxed. Just use the unupxed version of the program, the exe is bigger, but it works ok.Cheers

Have to 2nd the problem, unfortunately. WM5, WM6 + Universal does not display the icons, neither upxed nor unupxed. The 2k3 build although does on the same machines, the WM5 build does function on qVGA machines too. Could this probably be VGA related? Greets

[VivaErBetis]

This is the best task manager. Thanks dotfred.

Only one petition: I'm using WM6 Spanish in HTC Hermes. The option "removal of SCRIPT:0x000 events" don't delete the notifications cause them are generated with only two zeros at the beginning (0x00). Please, can you open the range? :)


BTW: or can anybody please tell me where is the counter used to number these notifications in order to change it.


Thanks and best regards.

[petervbeck]

You're a hero, dotfred! Great app and very useful ! Thanks a lot !

[Babosh]

Hi DotFred,

I like your software TaskMgr and find it very useful.

I have a question regarding the SysTray, are you developing this software using the DotNet framework (C#) ? I am asking you because I am developing a software and I want to have the option of minimizing to tray, and thought that you can help me or tell me how to achieve it ?


Regards,
Babosh

[PureOne]

How does one install this? I put it on my desktop with Treo connected and double click the file it says not a valid windows application. Coud someonw help please?

[rsolomon]

How does one install this? I put it on my desktop with Treo connected and double click the file it says not a valid windows application. Coud someonw help please?

It's a native Windows Mobile application. Copy the binary to your PocketPC and execute it there. Note that there's a menu item to install program and registry shortcuts - do that, then when you execute the registry editor there's another menu item to associate registry files - do that also!

HTH,
Richard

[iiiox]

a medal winning app indeed!
and here is a troditional chinese version i distracted from one of the cooked roms for 818pro.

[markjones63]

Does your application run under WM6 ?
MJ

[zandadoum]

hello


after installing some .DLLs to activate camera photo GPS on my P3300 my GPS stopped working. i got this nice tool due a tip that told me to activate COM3 and gpd0

i did and it worked. but everytime i reset the phone, i had to do it again.

1) is it possible to activate that automaticly after rebooting my pda?

and then... i installed the wm6 htc p3300 hdsc fix... it should not affect gps at all but now when i try to activate the com3 i get this message box:

"device load error, the operation has been completed succesfully" and the com3 stays unloaded... any hint on this please?

[danielo]

Hello,

I'm using the latest task manager but I experienced problem with displaying running processes. Dialog with progress bar didn't finish and I have to push cancel button. But not the all processes are displayed. Any idea where shoud be a problem? Is there any other similar task manager which can show running processes (maybe then I can find the process which causes this problem)?

Thank you

[SomeOOne]

Hello!!

I've got a HTC Dash it is WM5/WM6 Landscape Smartphone, with no touchscreen. :(
So I' ve got a question - is it posible to change Free Task manager interface and make it useable in such devices like mine is??

I do very appreciate your reply... :D

[BlackRocks]

Hello and good morning :)

Does anybody know the meaning / purpose of "install provisionning xml"?

Thank you and good bye.

[c_shekhar]

Wow! dotfred
The 2.9 really looks good. you are the man...

[famewolf]

If an oem package for 2.9 already exists can someone point me towards it? If not I'll try to "upgrade" the one from mfrazzz's wizard rom.

[thierryb]

Great app. I have found it by chance, just because I like your other PPCPimBackup (another big great app) [I would like to donate but you link do not accept euros, and I do not want to give part of your money to my bank]

May I ask a feature :
It will be great if we can export the list of apps, and for each apps the list of the dll, with all the data. /expapp:all or /expapp:poutlook.exe

One question :
what is the purpose of /w, if I launch a command, my pda is already wake up, no ?

[VivaErBetis]

I think that the option "Removal of SCRIPT:0x000 events on Notifications Tab" is broken in 2.9 version.
BTW: WM6 generates SCRIPT:0x00 Notifications too, behaviour that may be added to the program too.

[mistrix]

I think that the option "Removal of SCRIPT:0x000 events on Notifications Tab" is broken in 2.9 version.
BTW: WM6 generates SCRIPT:0x00 Notifications too, behaviour that may be added to the program too.

Same line of question here, but

- it's a command line option, not on the tab, right?

- the instructions under "about" said "/nb" "/ns" would remove SCRIPT:0x000 events in versions 2.7 and 2.8b
- now it says (all?) SCRIPT:0x events

- 2.9 still doesn't impact any of my plenty SCRIPT:0x00... events
- but none of the former versions ever did that for me
- I remember facing SCRIPT:0x00... events already with WM5 (never knew how to handle them though)

Dotfred, would you mind to enlighten us on the nature of these events? What creates them, what are they supposed to trigger?

May SCRIPT:0x00... events be deleted as well?

Thanks once more, for sharing your wonderfull tools.

[kram3r]

This without any doubt the best and more useful ppc program that I know.

Thanks.

[dotfred]

Hello and good morning :)

Does anybody know the meaning / purpose of "install provisionning xml"?

Thank you and good bye.

Just google for infos on this: provisioning files (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/DevGuideSP/html/sp_wce51conprovisioningstructureforsmartphonepocke tpcozup.asp)

just have a look also to : wap-provisioningdoc (http://www.google.com/search?q=wap-provisioningdoc&sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1B3GGGL_enBE215BE215&aq=t)

If you have some provider settings to install and you don't want to use a cab file to do so, you can directly install it using TM.

Cheers,

Fred

[dotfred]

Same line of question here, but

- it's a command line option, not on the tab, right?

- the instructions under "about" said "/nb" "/ns" would remove SCRIPT:0x000 events in versions 2.7 and 2.8b
- now it says (all?) SCRIPT:0x events

- 2.9 still doesn't impact any of my plenty SCRIPT:0x00... events
- but none of the former versions ever did that for me
- I remember facing SCRIPT:0x00... events already with WM5 (never knew how to handle them though)

Dotfred, would you mind to enlighten us on the nature of these events? What creates them, what are they supposed to trigger?

May SCRIPT:0x00... events be deleted as well?

Thanks once more, for sharing your wonderfull tools.

These events are created by the cprog application, in other words the phone application when you receive a missed call for instance.

They can be deleted, it won't affect/degrade/arm the device, so no worry.
I will have a look why this functionality doesn't work anymore in v2.9

Cheers,

Fred

[dotfred]

Great app. I have found it by chance, just because I like your other PPCPimBackup (another big great app) [I would like to donate but you link do not accept euros, and I do not want to give part of your money to my bank]

May I ask a feature :
It will be great if we can export the list of apps, and for each apps the list of the dll, with all the data. /expapp:all or /expapp:poutlook.exe

One question :
what is the purpose of /w, if I launch a command, my pda is already wake up, no ?

If you want to donate in euros, just click on the paypal link, then in the URL, just replace USD by EUR for the currency and then requery, you will see that you can pay in euros...;o)

For your request, I put it on my todo list for next release...

ps.: this can be used with a notification, to wake up the device, I think it was a request of someone. Anyway the /wl is more useful, because you can wake up the device and launch an application.

Cheers,

Fred

[BlackRocks]

Hello Fred,

thank you very much for your answer and the links.

I've got one more question about the Notification manager:
Is it possible to mark / show those entries which will be deleted, when using "remove duplicates and SCRIPT events"?

And thank you for this fine software.

Have a nice day :-)

BlackRocks

[thierryb]

If you want to donate in euros, just click on the paypal link, then in the URL, just replace USD by EUR for the currency and then requery, you will see that you can pay in euros...;o)

For your request, I put it on my todo list for next release...

ps.: this can be used with a notification, to wake up the device, I think it was a request of someone. Anyway the /wl is more useful, because you can wake up the device and launch an application.

Cheers,

Fred
Done. You are my first donation. I am glad, because I like all your tools.

[thierryb]

I have tried to execute task manager with the /regxpall, and I have no file created in my My Documents directory.

[rodalfa]

Hi Dogfred,

I'm missing something or the /startsvc and /stopsvc have the same result?

I'm using two links with:
"\Storage Card\Program Files\Task Manager\TaskMgr.exe" /startsvc BTT
"\Storage Card\Program Files\Task Manager\TaskMgr.exe" /stopsvc BTT
and both START the service.

[Where BTT is the A2DP fix service]

Many thanks!

[dotfred]

Hi Dogfred,

I'm missing something or the /startsvc and /stopsvc have the same result?

I'm using two links with:
"\Storage Card\Program Files\Task Manager\TaskMgr.exe" /startsvc BTT
"\Storage Card\Program Files\Task Manager\TaskMgr.exe" /stopsvc BTT
and both START the service.

[Where BTT is the A2DP fix service]

Many thanks!
Hi rodalfa,

You're right, they have the same behaviour!
I copied/pasted the same code and forgot to change StartService by StopService!:o

It will be fixed in next release...

Cheers,

Fred

[dotfred]

I have tried to execute task manager with the /regxpall, and I have no file created in my My Documents directory.
Hi Thierry,

I will investigate why it doesn't work...

Cheers,

Fred

[dotfred]

Same line of question here, but

- it's a command line option, not on the tab, right?

- the instructions under "about" said "/nb" "/ns" would remove SCRIPT:0x000 events in versions 2.7 and 2.8b
- now it says (all?) SCRIPT:0x events

- 2.9 still doesn't impact any of my plenty SCRIPT:0x00... events
- but none of the former versions ever did that for me
- I remember facing SCRIPT:0x00... events already with WM5 (never knew how to handle them though)

Dotfred, would you mind to enlighten us on the nature of these events? What creates them, what are they supposed to trigger?

May SCRIPT:0x00... events be deleted as well?

Thanks once more, for sharing your wonderfull tools.

Hi again mistrix,

Could you do something for me?

1) disable the SCRIPT:0x... notifications on your device
2) go into the registry under [HKCU\Software\FdcSoft\TaskMgr\Notifs]
3) export the Notifs key to a file
4) send it to me

So I will restore them on my device, and I will find out why the remove doesn't work, hopefully!

Cheers,

Fred

[dotfred]

Great app. I have found it by chance, just because I like your other PPCPimBackup (another big great app) [I would like to donate but you link do not accept euros, and I do not want to give part of your money to my bank]

May I ask a feature :
It will be great if we can export the list of apps, and for each apps the list of the dll, with all the data. /expapp:all or /expapp:poutlook.exe

One question :
what is the purpose of /w, if I launch a command, my pda is already wake up, no ?
Salut Thierry,

Can you tell me what you mean by "with all the data"?

Cheers,

Fred

[rodalfa]

Hi rodalfa,

You're right, they have the same behaviour!
I copied/pasted the same code and forgot to change StartService by StopService!:o

It will be fixed in next release...

Cheers,

Fred

Thanks!

I think it could be very usefull for all the people that uses A2DP FIX and want to start & stop this service when they are using A2DP, in order to save battery when they are not.

[allway]

greate soft! thanks for share!

[v3patel]

I have tried to execute task manager with the /regxpall, and I have no file created in my My Documents directory.

me too same result no file in Mu docs

[vober!]

How can i get TaskManager 2.9 manual?

[Salazar]

Great program, thank you.

I faced with just one problem:
Sometimes right after start the progress bar of process list updating stops after getting aproximately 20% of processes. But if i click the "cancel" button and then "refresh" everything goes right.

And I want to ask about you plans to add the "CPU Time" to your program?

I use your program for test the CPU consumption of my applications and it would be great if i had the ability to get the information about appetite of my apps.

[bmwheaven]

Is there a way of using this app on a WM6 phone without a touchscreen?
Could be me... but can't find out how to kill an app in the task manager (no way of going to the 3 buttons on the bottom without deselecting the chosen item).
Thanks...!

[TalynOne]

CAB files are cool, here are a couple.

[VooDoo1]

Will this work fine without any mods or reg hack to my Elf? (Touch)

[adomila]

the ping does not work for me. i tried pinging google and yahoo. my unit is an O2 xda atom. it just times out. but i could connect to the internet. is everybody experiencing the same thing or it is just me?

[francesco85]

thank you dotfred for this useful software

RegEdit don't save "View Option" like "hide status bar" and "nav bar"
and this is annoying cos i have to set them every time...

[BlackRocks]

New Version: Task Manager application (v3.1)
http://www.dotfred.net/TaskMgr.htm

Best regards

[Mexy]

Ok .... I've read the whole thread (which was a rather dizzying experience for a lay person like me) but I havent seen this mentioned. somehow the icon for the task manager appears on my today screen and I dont know how to remove it. I dont even know if I put it there or it just comes with the prog.

Any help please??

THANX!!!

PS
FANTASTIC application (even if I dont understand most of it ;) )


UPDATE: Ooops, never got back to this. I found the option in there that allows me to remove it.
Thanx.

I however have a new question: I thought that if a program freezes a Task Manager was supposed to be able to override it and shut it down, but I have this prog that appears to freeze if the phone screen goes off, and when I turn it back on Task Manager also freezes.....?????

[alex.kucherenko]

Hi,

last version hangs on Windows Mobile 6.0 Pro - LG KS20...

I On startup it shows progress dialog that hangs at the middle. I press Cancel dialog dissappered. I try to switch view on CPU Usage tab and application hangs completly.

BTW installation from CAB does not work on WM6 LG KS20 - error message said that application has problems with certificate.

[alex.kucherenko]

Hangs only when USB cable attached!!! when i disconnect cable application starts to work fine...

[Speedlimits]

Hello and many thanks for the app.

But how do we kill a process ?


ps : I am a newbie .

[q_werty]

I am using an older Ipaq wm2003se.

and when I open the ap it flashes on screen for half a sec with a cancel button then closes.

I was able to rapidly tap the cancel button and get it to break whatever operation it is trying to do, and check it out and it is quite impressive. But I need to get it to stop doing whatever is causing this . any reset seems to re corrupt, or whatever is going wrong, and I have only been bale to break the cycle twice.

Any suggestions?

[mr_5a]

Hangs only when USB cable attached!!! when i disconnect cable application starts to work fine...

the same for me, hangs when USB attached

[skyli91]

Do you use ChangeScreen? If yes, try the new version!

[tjlabais]

Hi dotFred,

how does your TaskManager differ from the built-in Task Manager of windows mobile 6.1 or 6.5? It doesn't report the same memory usage for device.exe in processes...

cheers,
TJ

[tahdor]

Hello DotFred,

I have seen that task manager hangs when S2U2/ilock2 is running. It happens on my Kaiser and also on Fuze. If I kill S2U2 and ilock2 then task manager runs fine.

I have seen many people seeing hang up but I am nit sure if they have same issue with S2U2.

Thanks.

[stylez]

Hello DotFred,

I have seen that task manager hangs when S2U2/ilock2 is running. It happens on my Kaiser and also on Fuze. If I kill S2U2 and ilock2 then task manager runs fine.

I have seen many people seeing hang up but I am nit sure if they have same issue with S2U2.

Thanks.

It's an S2U2 ilock2 issue not DotFred as it also can stop M2DC being applied etc "i bet there is more" ;) ...

[z80imo]

thanks for the app... it seems very useful!

[dan_ru]

dotfred

Hi, I've found minor bug with Registry export/import:
It's impossible to correctly export value REG_SZ with contain non-printable symbols. For example - value="\0\0" (I mean two zero bytes) will be exported as value="".
Also when I try to import some thing like this value="\r" - I've got 6 bytes value "\r" without any special char.

[dotfred]

dotfred

Hi, I've found minor bug with Registry export/import:
It's impossible to correctly export value REG_SZ with contain non-printable symbols. For example - value="\0\0" (I mean two zero bytes) will be exported as value="".
Also when I try to import some thing like this value="\r" - I've got 6 bytes value "\r" without any special char.
Hi,
If you do the same with regedit on Windows, you will obtain the same results. As you defined the value as a string, even if you have 1000 zero bytes, it will be exported as an empty string, I wonder how you could do it in another way, except, as you mentioned, by using a special notation.
Another problem is, if the reg file is used by another program, it won't work.

Anyway, if you can find some specs somewhere, it would be nice. If I find the time and if useful for other people, I will add this feature, BUT as an option (so not by default)

Cheers,

Fred

[Rhodium500]

Does anyone know how to run this taskmanager from command line using a mortscript. I need to autostart/stop a service and the /startsvc would work perfectly.

edit:
Run( "\My Documents\TaskMgr.exe", "/startsvc servicename" )
Works great.
Thanks for the help fred.

[dotfred]

Does anyone know how to run this taskmanager from command line using a mortscript. I need to autostart/stop a service and the /startsvc would work perfectly.
I sent you the way to write the script, but I never tested it myself.

Cheers,

Fred

[Noonski]

And he didn't even mention he has a new Update on http://www.DotFred.net

[onesolo]

And he didn't even mention he has a new Update on http://www.DotFred.net
I saw this on a crack site lol, it should have been here...

dotfred, I use cabviaactivesync to install all the cabs on my phone, but the new version (and I think previous had this error), gives me an error
"FdcSoft TaskMgr does not support the connected device type. Application Manager will make the application available for installation when a supported device type is connected."

I'm with a Touch Hd with WM6.5 and tried FdcSoft_TaskMgrv3.3_WM6.5.cab
Please fix this error. I install "thousands" of cabs on my phone I 99% they are installed fine via cabviaactivesync plugin in the explorer.

By the way, here's my suggestions
Is it possbile to have another set of icons/theme, as an alternative option. Cause sincerely those are a bit fat and ugly (at least for my taste)
Can you update the start menu icon to a more recent and high quality version??
I'm using HTC Sense and when I left/minimize the app or click on the left first icon (the one that indicates to place the task manager on the tray) the app simply disappears and the only way to go back to it is to click again on the icon on the start menu. It would be good if the app stays on the HTC Task Manager at least...

[VivaErBetis]

First of all I want to thank DotFred because this Task Manager is by far the best I've used in my PPC.

dotfred, I use cabviaactivesync to install all the cabs on my phone, but the new version (and I think previous had this error), gives me an error
"FdcSoft TaskMgr does not support the connected device type. Application Manager will make the application available for installation when a supported device type is connected."
That's because the cab files are made with the option "Platform Name: SSDK" instead of "Pocket PC" or "Smarthphone".


But there is a really terrible bug; the physical sofkeys are deactivated after using the Task Manager (tested with WM6.0 on an HTC TyTN). You need to soft reset to make it run again...

BTW: I don't like the new UI :(


Best regards.

[Noonski]

Dot Fred.

Maybe you can post the PNG files and other image files used in the 3.3 taskmanager.

I tried extracting those but could not because of Compression on the exe?
(tried ResHacker and CFF explorer)

Maybe "We the community" can help bringing design ideas.

[sponge_worthy]

Dot Fred,
I tried downloading both just the exe file and the cab file for the 6.5 version, but the version still says 3.1 after install. It doesn't look anything like the screen shots on your website. I was thrilled to see an update. Great work!

EDIT: Nevermind. Its working now.

[BlackRocks]

Hello :-)

Thanks a lot to dotfred for this great Taskmanager!

Just for your information: I noticed the same problem on my Asus P535 as VivaErBetis.

...
But there is a really terrible bug; the physical sofkeys are deactivated after using the Task Manager... You need to soft reset to make it run again...


Best regards

[zinconnu]

Thanks Dotfred for the new version (v 3.3) ! Works perfectly on WinMo 6.1.:-)

[hendrixus]

And he didn't even mention he has a new Update on http://www.DotFred.net

Right. I just found out too via:
http://www.freewareppc.com/utilities/taskmanager.shtml

[zinconnu]

Right. I just found out too via:
http://www.freewareppc.com/utilities/taskmanager.shtml

And before your post there is...? ;)

[sh.a.rk]

Hi . Commandline function \TaskMgr.exe /startdvc PRX0 does not work. Pleas help to start/stop device shortcuts.
(WM 6.5 omnia2)

[cruiserrr]

Hi, anyway to backup notifications created with fdcsoft task manager? eg. whenwificonnected? I want to automate a few tasks when home wifi connection is available and include it in a cooked rom.

[dotfred]

Hi, anyway to backup notifications created with fdcsoft task manager? eg. whenwificonnected? I want to automate a few tasks when home wifi connection is available and include it in a cooked rom.
Could you precisely describe what you need, because I'm not sure I understood clearly what you want?

Cheers,

Fred

[jwoegerbauer]

Found no way "Exporting (parts of) CE Registry as Provisioning XML". Currently impossible?

[Farmer Ted]

Hi, anyway to backup notifications created with fdcsoft task manager? eg. whenwificonnected? I want to automate a few tasks when home wifi connection is available and include it in a cooked rom.

I've backed up a couple of notifications using pocket database editor. Basically, I took a clean mxip_notify.vol, put it on my sd card, then edited with Phatware's editor to include the notifications I needed. Then I put it in my kitchen, and have it over-write the stock sys .vol file. It works great, but editing the volume is a little tricky.

[nosedive]

hey Fred!
thanks for your hard work on this taskmanager, it's certainly a real pearle of software :D
i'm currently using task_mgr in version 3.1, mainly because i love the menu organisation. also i get confused by the icons in 3.3 easily.. one thing that is really annoying, is what you describe as bug fix in version 3.3 - the hang caused by badly programmed apps.
i wonder if there's a possibility to have the old styled menus in version 3.3? without the thumb stuff?
thanks in advance.
nosedive