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How to rename my nw app in Windows Task Manager #2160

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epingchow opened this issue Aug 4, 2014 · 2 comments
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How to rename my nw app in Windows Task Manager #2160

epingchow opened this issue Aug 4, 2014 · 2 comments

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@epingchow
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For now my node-webkit app is start with a nw.exe, so my app is named with this file name (nw.exe) in windows Taskmanager.

How can i change the application name/Product name

please help.

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@epingchow epingchow changed the title How to rename my nw app in Taskmanger in Windows How to rename my nw app in Windows Task Manager Aug 4, 2014
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Mithgol commented Aug 4, 2014

Two different interfaces are called “Task Manager” in Windows 7.

One of them is invoked by Alt+Tab to switch between tasks. A mere change of the document's title (<title> in HTML5, document.title in JavaScript) is enough to change the application's name in that interface.

The other is invoked by Alt+Ctrl+Del and then Task Manager option. It displays names of executable files, such as nw.exe for node-webkit. However, if you rename nw.exe, you may hit #199. Thus it's not advised.

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This should be working with latest version now.

In 0.13 we changed to an optimized architecture so more features can be supported, see http://nwjs.io/blog/whats-new-in-0.13/ and it's good for keeping up with Chromium upstream -- we released with Node.js v6.0 and new Chromium versions within 1 day after upstream release.

The new version would fixed many issues reported here and we're scrubbing them. This issue is closed as we believe it should be fixed. Please leave a message if it isn't and we'll reopen it.

MadLittleMods added a commit to gitterHQ/nw-builder that referenced this issue Jul 17, 2017
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Add option.winVersionString for accurate process name
11ac93b 
Fix nwutils#196
Fix nwutils#315

See

 - nwjs/nw.js#5809
 - nwjs/nw.js#5807
 - nwjs/nw.js#4293
 - nwjs/nw.js#2160
 - nwjs/nw.js#5829

Allows you to edit the version string of the resultant Windows executable.
These can be easily viewed in Properties -> Details, http://i.imgur.com/oqyRwaa.png

Fix issue where the process showed up as `nwjs` in Windows.
Now defaults to the `options.appName`
@MadLittleMods MadLittleMods mentioned this issue Jul 17, 2017
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adam-lynch pushed a commit to nwutils/nw-builder that referenced this issue Oct 19, 2017
@MadLittleMods @adam-lynch
Add option.winVersionString for accurate process name (#459)
748ff18 
Fix #196
Fix #315

See

 - nwjs/nw.js#5809
 - nwjs/nw.js#5807
 - nwjs/nw.js#4293
 - nwjs/nw.js#2160
 - nwjs/nw.js#5829

Allows you to edit the version string of the resultant Windows executable.
These can be easily viewed in Properties -> Details, http://i.imgur.com/oqyRwaa.png

Fix issue where the process showed up as `nwjs` in Windows.
Now defaults to the `options.appName`
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