I’m sure many of you open up the Task Manager at least a few times each day to shutdown a program, or to check to see which programs are eating up a lot of memory. All of the Task Manager addicts out there will love this free program.
The app is called Task Killer, and it adds an icon to your System Tray for pulling up a list of running processes and programs. In one click you can have a program shutdown, or it will take two clicks if you enable the “prompt before terminating” option in the settings.
One of the other nice things with Task Killer is that you can assign hotkeys to bring up a list of running processes, services, and/or windows. You can also have certain processes excluded from the list so that they never show up. This is great for all of the built-in Windows processes that you never mess with anyway.
Task Killer (requires installation, and does work on Vista despite not explicitly saying that it does)
[via Lifehacker]
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It may be entirely coincidental, but shortly after downloading this program my computer started alerting me that the “Starware Toolbar” was trying to install itself. I managed to block the Starware Toolbar, and the Task Killer program itself looks like a nice addition.
I did take the precaution of restoring my registry to its settings before the installation of Task Killer (thanks to ERUNT, probably one of the most valuable little programs I ever installed on my computer).
A really useful app – I’ve been wanting something like this for Windows for ages!
Looks cool, maybe I’ll try it.
I haven’t had any prompts like that, so it must be a coincidence. It’s a really nifty program though.
I kill and restart EXPLORER.EXE process 10-20 times per day
EXPLORER.EXE becomes very slooooow and unstable after copying a large amount (some Gigabytes) of files at once.
That’s interesting … I can’t remember the last time that I intentionally restarted EXPLORER.EXE.
This is an awesome app. It’s much faster than looking though the windows task manager