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  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Oct 5th, 2009
  • Comments: 2

Batch Kill Processes With Auto Kill Any Process

Auto Kill Any Process has been designed to batch kill running processes in Windows. Why would someone want to do that? There are actually a few reasons where this functionality might come in handy. Think about launching programs that benefit from every additional Megabyte of computer memory and cpu power. Some gamers for instance like [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

Get to know Linux: ps command

Over the years there have been certain commands that have really helped me out of a bind. One of those commands is the ps command. The ps stands for process status and it tells you, as you would expect, the status of a process. This is a fast way to know if an application or [...]

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Categories: Advice, Linux, Open Source, Tutorials Basic, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jun 9th, 2009
  • Comments: 7

Windows Task Manager Replacement DTaskManager

DTaskManager is a lightweight replacement for the default Windows Task Manager. It can be used side by side with the Windows Task Manager or replace it fully. If the second option is selected it will be launched when the user is opening the task manager the usual way. The program uses a similar layout as [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jan 29th, 2009
  • Comments: 5

Automatically Identify Running Processes

Assassin SE is a software program for that will scan, identify and rate all running processes on a computer system running Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP or Windows Vista. The program will automatically scan all running processes during startup and display information about them in a table. Among the information provided are the name, [...]

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Categories: Security, Uncategorized, Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Apr 25th, 2008
  • Comments: 3

Bill2’s Process Manager

Oh not, not another process manager. I hear you, really. But Bill2’s Process Manager is something special, at least I think it is. It is optimized for multi core systems and compatible to Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Vista. The first thing that you should do after installing the application is to switch the [...]

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Categories: Operating Systems, Tools, Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Mar 2nd, 2008
  • Comments: 6

End multiple programs at once

It sometimes is a good idea to close most processes and programs at once. Could be helpful if you want to run a very resource intensive program or an application asks you to close all programs open before continuing. This happens when you install some programs or run utilities like scandisk or defrag.

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Categories: Operating Systems, Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Mar 1st, 2008
  • Comments: 4

Automatically Adjust the Process Priority

There is no automatic way to adjust the priority of a process in Windows using the default tools supplied by Microsoft. It is possible to adjust the current process priority but this setting is only valid for the current setting. Once the process gets killed, for example by closing the application or rebooting, it reverts the priority back to the default one.

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Categories: Operating Systems, Tools, Windows, software

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