Sysinternals Process Explorer - BUG REPORT: Column Headers overwrite sorting Caret

Atomique 0 Reputation points
2025-02-20T18:43:49.5066667+00:00

On the Process Explorer regular/home screen, you can (of course) order/sort the processes displayed by clicking on the column header. This works fine. HOWEVER the CARET (^) which displays the "order-this-column-is-now-sorted" is OVERWRITTEN by the column-header text -- YET there is clearly whitespace BELOW the text which (in versions years past, this is a long-standing bug) which is where the text SHOULD be displayed -- so that the caret is displayed ABOVE the column-name, and so remains visible. But (2 years?) ago, the column-header-text was now displayed higher (leaving the whitespace below it) and now overwrites the Caret! If you expand the column wide enough so that the column-header is drawn entirely right-of-center, the Caret will appear and you can see it is NOT "above" but is instead entirely within the height of the column-header-text.

This bug I find entirely annoying as I have lots of columns and frequently use the sorting feature. You CANNOT tell what column you're currently sorted-by. Please fix this. It wasn't always this way, something broke awhile back.Screenshot 2025-02-20 133543

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