SysManager 1.114.14

[1.114.14] - 2026-09-28

Ending a program in Process Manager now ends that program only. It also ended every program the chosen one
had started. After SysManager's own "Run as administrator" restart, that meant ending Explorer closed every
open program.

Fixed

• Process Manager: Kill ends the process you chose, and nothing else. It ended the whole process tree: the
  program, every program it had started, and theirs in turn, behind a confirmation that named one program.
  • Every program opened from the taskbar or the Start menu is started by Explorer. So after SysManager's own
    administrator restart, ending explorer.exe closed all of them, with anything unsaved.
  • When SysManager itself had been started from Explorer, it was inside that tree, and .NET refuses to end a
    tree that contains the program asking. Nothing was ended, and the tab blamed administrator rights.
    It now ends the one process, as Task Manager's End task and File Lock Detector already did. Present since the
    tab was added in v0.9.0.
• Process Manager: "Could not kill" now means the process is still running. The same message covered a
  process that had already closed, and a tree kill that ended the program but not one of its children. A
  process that has closed now loses its row and says so.
  • The kill also checks when the process started. If the program closed while the confirmation was open and
    Windows gave its ID to another program, that program is left alone.
  • SysManager's own row is refused before the confirmation, because ending it would stop SysManager
    mid-step. It used to be refused only by accident.
• Process Manager: the once-a-second refresh no longer rewrites the status line. It wrote "Refreshing process
  list…" and then "Loaded N processes." every second.
  • Any result, including "cannot be ended" for a system-critical process, was replaced within a second.
  • A screen reader was given two announcements a second.
  • The progress bar and the tab's busy mark in the sidebar flashed on every refresh.
    The background refresh is now silent, and the Refresh button still reports what it loaded. Present since the
    automatic refresh was added in v1.10.2.

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