TheRestarter

Released alongside with the presentation at REcon 2023, TheRestarter is a tool is designed to interact with the Windows Restart Manager.

Features

• Register a file, a process or a service within a Restart Manager session to retrieve the list of affected applications (applications currently using the resource)
• Attempt to terminate the affected applications detected by the Restart Manager
• Automatically search & display for the list of services and processes that are currently used by applications other than themselves
• Iterate over the binaries of the system to determine if a target process is currently running
• Simulating the lock of a file (for a future file registration example)

Build & run

Requirements

• Windows 10/ Windows 11
• Visual Studio 2022

Steps

1. Dowload the sources files:

git clone https://github.com/MathildeVenault/TheRestarter.git

2. Open .sln file in Visual Studio 2022
3. Compile with x64/Release mode
4. (Optional, to simulate file locking) Copy LockFile.exe in the directory where your executable will be executed

License

Published under the licence : MIT

Initial commit : version 0.1 (June, 2023.)