Pakua SysManager 1.78.2

[1.78.2] - 2026-09-08
Running SysManager as administrator left a hidden powershell.exe behind every time a feature used one. They
were invisible, they never went away on their own, and each one held a few threads open inside SysManager. A
long session with a lot of Windows Update or disk-health checks accumulated them.
Fixed
- The helper SysManager starts for administrator tasks is now actually stopped when the task ends. It was
being let go of rather than closed — the difference being that letting go of something does not end it. Each
leftover kept its output pipes open, which kept threads inside SysManager waiting on them for nothing. In a
test run that used PowerShell hundreds of times, this left roughly 276 of them alive at once and over a
thousand stuck threads, until the run could no longer make progress.
Added
- A test that starts a real background process and proves the cleanup stops it. Written the awkward way on
purpose: the first two versions passed against code that did no cleanup at all, once because the stand-in
process was dying for an unrelated reason and once because the test never went through the real code path.
Verify the download
Get-FileHash .\SysManager-v1.78.2.exe -Algorithm SHA256
Expected SHA256: 3AEBF515C5E2159E21D016BB7F2D8E603B23E7F78214D00398E108D0BED02031
This build is not code-signed, so Windows will warn on first launch. That is
expected for a small independent app: see what the warning says and what to
click.
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This exe was built by GitHub Actions from this public source, and the build is
recorded in the Sigstore public transparency log. With the
GitHub CLI:
gh attestation verify .\SysManager-v1.78.2.exe --repo laurentiu021/SystemManager
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Each release also ships SysManager-v1.78.2.sbom.json, a CycloneDX inventory of
every dependency resolved for this build.