Comments on: Kill and Change Priority of Applications from the Taskbar

By: Change

Change — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:10:24 +0000

(…)though I wonder if I can even reach them when I need to access them(…)

And indeed, after some experience with this piece of software, the kill option is not accessible because the right-click menu does not popup when an application is stuck Pity.

By: mr.GOS

mr.GOS — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 06:42:17 +0000

that’s nice tips. i’ll try it..

thx..

By: Syahid A

Syahid A — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 13:02:42 +0000

Made me remember about “nice” and “renice” in Linux!

By: Tinhed

Tinhed — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 14:00:13 +0000

A similar program that ive found as useful is “DAPHNE”. It too is open source.

By: SantAnna

SantAnna — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:54:57 +0000

There is no 64 bit version

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:52:50 +0000

Joe wrote:

I don’t know where you got that “under 150? downloads. It was covered by Lifehacker back in November, and received just under 6,000 downloads that month

Huh... that is definitely the same stats page I checked. Sourceforge must have been having troubles when I looked it up, because I know the data did not look like that.

By: Change

Change — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:45:47 +0000

Great find! Love the kill and process priority options, though I wonder if I can even reach them when I need to access them. Usually ctrl+alt+delete works better because the task manager gets a higher task priority by default, and the right-click menu does not.

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 17:10:04 +0000

I don’t know where you got that “under 150″ downloads. It was covered by Lifehacker back in November ( [lifehacker.com]+click ), and received just under 6,000 downloads that month:

[sourceforge.net]

I’ve been running AnVir Task Manager to get something similar: instead of the “hide” and “kill” options, you get “resize”, “always minimize to tray”, and “create floating icon”. The tray icon(s) allow for wonderfully flexible and powerful resource monitoring, and it’s a supercharged task manager that rivals Process Explorer. If you don’t want all that overhead (34MB RAM), Process Manager is certainly just fine, and the option to kill the process is a big advantage.