[ Task Killer - process manager to terminate applications (tasks) quickly and tracking their memory usage ]

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Win95, 98, Me, NT, 2000, XP

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This process manager allows you to quickly terminate applications, processes, windows, to start/stop Windows services and etc. ie. you may "kill" a frozen (hanged up) application, process or service by clicking on the windows taskbar's Task Killer icon and choosing application (process) from the menu list. You will forget clumsy key combination Ctrl-Alt-Del and standard Task Manager window forever!

Features overview:

Very fast and neat way to unload ("kill") freezed ("hanged") applications (tasks), processes or services. Shows tasks, windows and(or) services in popup menu.
"Smart Kill" mode - is more safe mode to kill program than standard windows Task Manager.
Applications memory usage control.
Flexible settings.
Global hotkeys.
User firendly interface.
Very low process usage and memory usage.
Freeware!

If you search for easy-to-use application memory tracker and process manager don't fail to try Task Killer. There are no windows (only settings window to setup Task Killer look, hotkeys etc.) - just popup menu where you will see applications, processes, windows names and services (alphabetically sorted) and their memory usage. Red colored items are hanged ("freezed") applications. You may unload them from memory by one click. Green colored menu items are system applications and services (think twice before unloading those processes)

Task Killer is not full alternative of Mark Russinovich Process Explorer (which is much more powerfull than standard windows process manager "Task manager") but everyday processes manager and "killing" tool. If you interested in full featured processes control tool then Sysinternals Process Explorer tool will be one of the best choice. Short description of Process Explorer from Mark Russinovich (Sysinternals):

Ever wondered which program has a particular file or directory open? Now you can find out. Process Explorer shows you information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded.

The Process Explorer display consists of two sub-windows. The top window always shows a list of the currently active processes, including the names of their owning accounts, whereas the information displayed in the bottom window depends on the mode that Process Explorer is in: if it is in handle mode you'll see the handles that the process selected in the top window has opened; if Process Explorer is in DLL mode you'll see the DLLs and memory-mapped files that the process has loaded. Process Explorer also has a powerful search capability that will quickly show you which processes have particular handles opened or DLLs loaded.

The unique capabilities of Process Explorer make it useful for tracking down DLL-version problems or handle leaks, and provide insight into the way Windows and applications work.

Process Explorer works on Windows 9x/Me, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Server 2003, and 64-bit versions of Windows for x64 and IA64 processors, and Windows Vista.

See Online Help for more information about Task Killer.

Task killer is "international" and supports any count of languages. If you can help us to implement the support to another one(s), please drop us an email line. Just don't send us your language file prior to contacting us, as far as such version might be already under development.