{"id":5189,"date":"2018-07-22T00:40:47","date_gmt":"2018-07-22T00:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/?p=5189"},"modified":"2018-07-29T00:40:44","modified_gmt":"2018-07-29T00:40:44","slug":"taskmgr-exe-slashing-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/22\/taskmgr-exe-slashing-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"taskmgr.exe slashing numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you ever launched Task Manager using some of the shortcuts e.g. CTRL+SHIFT+ESC you probably noticed that it causes taskmgr.exe to be launched with a command line argument &#8216;\/2&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/taskmgr.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5190\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/taskmgr.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/taskmgr.png 664w, https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/taskmgr-300x126.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is a very good <a href=\"https:\/\/superuser.com\/questions\/753556\/taskmgr-exe-called-with-an-argument-by-windows-7\">post<\/a> on the supersuer forum that describes a number of cases. I was curious if we can find some more + thought it would be good to summarize it all in one post.<\/p>\n<p>Here they are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No command line arguments\n<ul>\n<li>via Windows Explorer<\/li>\n<li>via terminal (cmd.exe, powershell, cygwin, etc.)<\/li>\n<li>via WIN+R\/Run box<\/li>\n<li>win7 &#8211; via Control Panel: search for Task manager, Click &#8216;View running processes with Task Manager&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>via any other 3rd part component that allows to launch programs e.g. Total Commander, FAR<\/li>\n<li>via Search (in Explorer)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>taskmgr.exe \/1\n<ul>\n<li>Start non-elevated Task Manager, click &#8216;Show processes from all users&#8217; button<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>taskmgr.exe \/2\n<ul>\n<li>Press CTRL+SHIFT+ESC<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>taskmgr.exe \/3\n<ul>\n<li>Press CTRL+ALT+DEL, click &#8216;Start Task Manager&#8217;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>taskmgr.exe \/4\n<ul>\n<li>Right click on the Taskbar and click &#8216;Start task Manager&#8217;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>taskmgr.exe \/5\n<ul>\n<li>N\/A<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>taskmgr.exe \/6\n<ul>\n<li>win10 &#8211; via Control Panel: search for Task manager, Click &#8216;View system resource usage in Task Manager&#8217;, or &#8216;Task manager&#8217;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>taskmgr.exe \/7\n<ul>\n<li>win10 &#8211; via Start Menu, click &#8216;Task Manager&#8217;\n<ul>\n<li>\/7 \/Startup &#8211; win10: via Msconfig, click &#8216;Startup&#8217;, click &#8216;Open Task Manager&#8217;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>taskmgr.exe \/8\n<ul>\n<li>win8(?) &#8211; N\/A (guess: perhaps Start Menu, click &#8216;Task Manager&#8217;, but need to verify)\n<ul>\n<li>\/8 \/Startup &#8211; win8(?): since the command is very similar to the &#8216;\/7 \/Startup&#8217; described above, there is a possibility that this applies to Task Manager launched via MSConfig on Win8 (I don&#8217;t have win8 at hand to test); notably, there is a reference to this command inside &#8216;c:\\Windows\\System32\\hcproviders.dll&#8217; on win10; not sure how to trigger it though<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>taskmgr.exe \/9\n<ul>\n<li>N\/A<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Other than launching Task Manager directly one can also use LaunchTM.exe to make it launch Task Manager process via proxy (AFAIK it&#8217;s only used by winlogon.exe).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you ever launched Task Manager using some of the shortcuts e.g. CTRL+SHIFT+ESC you probably noticed that it causes taskmgr.exe to be launched with a command line argument &#8216;\/2&#8217;. There is a very good post on the supersuer forum that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/22\/taskmgr-exe-slashing-numbers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[52,19,46],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5189"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5189"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5211,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5189\/revisions\/5211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}