System - Task Managers (18)

Task Killer will quickly terminates applications, processes, Windows services, etc. Simply click on the Task Killer icon and select the application / process / service from the menu list. The program features customizable hot-keys (global), command-line support, and a "Smart Kill" mode with a safer way to kill a program than the standard Task Manager.

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PrcView is a process viewer utility that displays detailed information about processes running under Windows. For each process, it displays memory, threads and module usage. For each DLL, it displays full path and version information.

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Windows 9x/Me users: Performance and monitoring-related functionality are not available.

a-squared HiJackFree allows you to view and edit the configured autoruns, list explorer/browser add-ons, look at installed services, view all currently opened ports, and list all running processes. It helps in the detection and removal of all types of spyware, adware, trojans and worms.

THG Task Assignment Manager is an invaluable utility for anyone with a multi-processor or multi-core computer. It allows you to increase the speed of your computer by configuring certain tasks to individual processors. Known as "affinity," this will save your program settings and maintain profiles of them in the future. This has many benefits including:

• Keeping one program from using all your system resources
• Increasing speed to two or more programs that aren't optimized for multi-processor systems
• Helping run some games that require a correct affinity setting to run properly

Advanced Process Manipulation (APM) is an advanced process/module viewer and manipulation utility that allows particular control over target processes by becoming a part of them. APM attaches a part of itself to the target process and once 'inside', APM is free to perform actions on its behalf (e.g.: determining which ports are in use, un/loading DLLs into the target process, allowing you to make plugins for virtually any program...)

Faber Toys provides views of internal system activity including an audit of Processes (including dependencies), AutoRuns (including access to Registry etc), File Analysis (including e.g. PE analysis, imported modules, functions exported), Program Aliases and a hierarchical view of existing windows. The program can export information in XHTML, HTML or TXT format, and enables process priority modification, process kill, auto-refresh with custom interval, and Highlight Services (NT only).

Regmon is a registry monitoring utility that will show you which applications are accessing your registry, which keys they are accessing, and the registry data that they are reading and writing - all in real-time. This advanced utility takes you one step beyond what static registry tools can do, to let you see and understand exactly how programs use the registry.

Note that Vista and above are encouraged to use Process Monitor.

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