Cant join?! "Please Close Process Hacker" ?! ITS CLOSED!!

[SpecwolF]

When I try to launch Squad it says "Please close process hacker"... It is closed, and its closed in my task manager.. Also, ive restrted the PC since my last use of process hacker?? Whats going on?

[Kuya_Jo]

For those who get easily triggered by "hacker", assuming its a hacking tool - its not. Just a tool to shut down running processes in the background and gather some more info about them - like an enhanced taskmanager. (However, the name should have been chosen more wisely...)

And, using the magic tool - GOOGLE - it comes up with the following:

Process Hacker uses a kernel-mode driver, KProcessHacker, to assist with certain functionality - this driver will remain loaded (but inactive) after PH has exited - like all kernel drivers.

You can disable the driver and prevent it from being initially loaded by doing the following: open Process Hacker > click Options > click the Advanced tab, untick the 'Enable kernel-mode driver' option and finally apply to save the settings - after you've done this, just reboot to unload the driver and it'll remain disabled until the option is enabled (and you've restarted again) .

However the following functionality will become unavailable without the driver:
* Bypassing rootkits and some security software in limited ways
* More powerful process and thread termination
* Setting DEP status of processes
* Capturing kernel-mode stack traces
* More efficiently enumerating process handles
* Retrieving names for file handles
* Retrieving names for EtwRegistration objects
* Setting handle attributes