Task Unmanager (Rust) — Roulette for your PC

keeps killing processes Russian Roulette style, until your machine crashes

A terminal UI that spins a wheel of running PIDs. Whatever the arrows land on gets killed. Earn coins per kill, spend them in the Shop on increasingly unhinged "upgrades" until either you're rich or your machine isn't.

Renders in place — frames overwrite the same cells; no scrolling.

Build & run

cd task_unmanager_rs
cargo run --release

The release binary embeds a requireAdministrator UAC manifest, so launching it triggers the elevation prompt. There is also a runtime fallback that re-launches via ShellExecuteW("runas") if for some reason the manifest didn't apply. Pass --no-elevate to skip both.

Main menu

 [P] Play Russian Roulette
 [S] Shop
 [R] Reset Save
 [Q] Quit

↑/↓ to navigate, ENTER to confirm, or use the bracketed shortcut keys.

Shop

upgrade	effect
Download More RAM	+25% coins per kill (stackable up to ×10)
Defrag Hard Drive	Faster wheel spin (stackable up to ×5)
Bigger Magazine	+1 kill per trigger pull (stackable up to ×4)
Lucky Charm	+5% chance of 10× JACKPOT payout per kill (×5)
Download McAfee	Marks "infected" processes worth 5× coins
Rewrite Kernel in Rust	2× all coin gains, gold theme. Blazingly unsafe.

Save state lives at %APPDATA%\TaskUnmanager\save.txt.

Controls in-game

key	action
SPACE/ENTER	spin the wheel & fire
Q / ESC	back to main menu

No processes are off-limits. The trigger always pulls; the wheel always lands on something; that something always dies (subject only to the OS returning access-denied). Everything in tasklist is a valid target, including SYSTEM-critical processes. Have fun.

Do not run this on a machine you care about.