Monthly Archives: March 2010

Mar 31

Process Explorer cannot replace Task Manager in Vista 64-bit

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I installed the latest version of Process Explorer (v12) on my Vista 64-bit computer and set it to replace the default Task Manager, however, when I right-clicked the task bar to launch Task Manager, Process Explorer did not come up but an error message saying cannot find taskmgr.exe file:

Windows cannot find ‘C:\Windows\system32\taskmgr.exe’. Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again.

ProcessExplorerError

The old version of Process Explorer does not have this problem. The easy fix is this posted on Windows Sysinternals forum by Mark:

The solution is rather easy: start ProcessExplorer, go to the directory where it is installed and copy procexp64.exe to another location. Then close ProcessExplorer and copy procexp64.exe back to said directory. When you now use this file to start ProcessExplorer (change Links/Shortcuts) you can use it as a TaskMgr replacement without problems.

I followed the steps above and it did the trick on my Vista 64-bit. I hope this bug will be fixed soon.

Mar 26

Firefox 3.7 pre-release 4 still not pass Acid3 test, but getting close

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As shown in my last post, Firefox 3.6.2 didn’t pass the Acid3 Test with a score 94/100, 6 points away from passing the test. Today, I downloaded Firefox 3.7 Pre-release 4 and ran the Acid3 Test again to see if the new Firefox will do better. The result showed that Firefox 3.7 Pre-release 4 did do a better job than Firefox 3.6.2, but unfortunately it still didn’t pass the test, having a score of 96/100.

Firefox 3.6.2 Acid3 Test Result

 

Firefox 3.7 Pre-release 4 Acid3 Test Result

Acid3ScreenCapture_Minefield

Test details:

Failed 4 of 100 tests.
Test 26 passed, but took 1185ms (less than 30fps)
Test 40 passed, but took 42ms (less than 30fps)
Test 46 passed, but took 34ms (less than 30fps)
Test 71 failed: expected '1' but got '2' - wrong number of children in HEAD (first test)
Test 77 failed: expected '4776' but got '5560' - getComputedTextLength failed.
Test 78 failed: expected '90' but got '0' - getRotationOfChar(0) failed.
Test 79 failed: expected '34' but got '33' - SVGSVGTextElement.getNumberOfChars() incorrect
Total elapsed time: 3.67s