Comments on: FREE: Process Explorer – a better Task Manager

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 20:22:00 +0000

James, you’re right Vista’s UAC lacks this important feature. It is not the only one.

By: James Moffitt

James Moffitt — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 03:26:22 +0000

Normally I log on as a regular domain user on my Vista Ultimate machine. The only time I am supposed to use my SU (domain admin) account is when I need to utilize those credentials to get a task completed on one of the servers. IE when I do RDP to a server I have to logon as an SU account. However if I want to run Hyena from my Vista machine it would be nice to right click on the icon and chose run as my SU domain admin account. You can do that in XP but not in Vista.

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 19:02:32 +0000

James, did you logon as an administrator on your machine?

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 19:01:37 +0000

Thanks a lot for the tip. Unblocking the help file helped. But the icons are still not displayed even after downloading it with Firefox and extracting with 7Zip.

By: James Moffitt

James Moffitt — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 03:09:10 +0000

When I right click on an icon from Vista I am not allowed to use “ran as” and run as an administrator account. I thought that feature was disabled in Vista since it does not work for me. I am running Vista Ultimate.

By: Sean

Sean — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 20:37:49 +0000

Aaaaahhh… Gotcha. You were suggesting workaround #3:

Use FireFox to download and WinRAR to unzip. That worked for me as well.

By: Lukas Beeler

Lukas Beeler — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 17:27:21 +0000

Sean, i think you misunderstood me. I did NOT have the problem that Michael mentioned – he did experience because he was using IE/Explorer to download/unzip the file, which marked them as “Web downloaded”.

By: Sean

Sean — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 17:15:17 +0000

Hmmm… I don’t have Vista handy (and the help file opens fine on 2003 with Firefox and WinRAR). I’ll try it when I get home tonight. Every time I have ever run into this problem, the two workarounds in that blog post have resolved the problem for me.

Method 1

Double-click the .chm file.
In the Open File-Security Warning dialog box, click to clear the Always ask before opening this file check box.
Click Open.

Method 2

Right-click the CHM file, and then click Properties.
Click Unblock.
Double-click the .chm file to open the file.

If neither of those work, let me know and I’ll do some more research.

By: Lukas Beeler

Lukas Beeler — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 16:26:32 +0000

Sean, this would explain why i haven’t gotten the problem as i downloaded the file with Firefox and unzipped it using Winrar, which do not set the “internet downloaded” (NTFS?) attributes.

By: Sean

Sean — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 16:11:59 +0000

For some workarounds on the Help problem, check out the following post:

http://blogs.technet.com/seanearp/archive/2007/05/28/can-t-read-chm-compiled-help-on-vista-xp-2003.aspx

By: Lukas Beeler

Lukas Beeler — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 07:24:16 +0000

http://projectdream.org/~lb/procexp.jpg Help works flawlessly too. This is a Vista install that happened somewhere around last December, so it's quite old, and i didn't test it on other machines at work yet.

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ITsVISTA Web Links: September 7th, 2007 | ITsVISTA — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 05:59:57 +0000

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By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 05:44:35 +0000

Hmm that is strange. I tried it on two different Vista machines. One of them was freshly installed. Were you able to open the Help file on Vista?

By: Lukas Beeler

Lukas Beeler — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 19:18:03 +0000

Displaying icons works perfectly for me under Vista.