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We all are accustomed to opening up Task manager atleast a few times every day to shutdown un-responding tasks, or to checkup on which programs are eating up a lot of memory. But i don’t like bashing my keyboard’s Ctrl+Alt+Del keys every now and then. I’m sure you’ll love this tiny little app called Task Killer, forget Ctrl+Alt+Del.
Task killer sits in your taskbar and displays all of your running processes. With just a click you can shutdown un-responding programs or process. Hanging processes appear in red so you can quickly hunt it down and terminate that process. You can even assign hotkeys to quickly access running processes, services, and/or windows. Besides that you can even exclude certain processes so that they don’t show up later. Task Killer is a extremely handy and lightweight (under 1MB memory) app. Best of all Task Killer is a freeware. It runs on Win95, 98, Me, NT, 2000, XP but that doesn’t mean it won’t work on Vista. Make sure you assign the hotkeys, left mouse click is the default for opening the popup which can be annoying at times.
December 14th, 2007 at 4:08 pm
I need this task killer..sometimes it takes time after pressing your ctrl alt del keys for the task manager to show up. Will definitely try it. Just hope it would work properly with my Vista.
December 14th, 2007 at 11:45 pm
I use Task Manager a lot to kill tasks. This will definitely come in handy… Thanks for sharing buddy :)
December 15th, 2007 at 1:28 am
Looks like a good solution to kill tasks, I usually have to kill Firefox when it hogs up memory. Think this will help me do it faster
December 15th, 2007 at 12:08 pm
Actually i was annoyed with that ctrl alt del so i tried searching the web for a solution. Got this gem atlast.
December 16th, 2007 at 1:41 am
Ctrl+Alt+Del works fine. No sense in runnign an extra app in the background. But there are times wihen ending a process like that won’t cut it, in which case there’s this free app called Process Explorer from sysinternals that works great. Helps to unlock “in use” files too.
December 16th, 2007 at 11:05 am
Process Explorer is another great app. I have used that too.
February 20th, 2008 at 10:21 am
It’s useless in windows, otherwise you can really “kill” a process in Windows. As for me, I’ve tried EVERYTHING. ANYTHING. But the process has never been killed. It’s just terminated, but not killed. So many times thannot, the process is still there, cannot be killed, and still consuming a HELL LOT of resources. It was terminated though, as most of it’s resources are gone, but the some. Coupled that with crappy Windows thread management, and you get an idea how crap Windows is. The only way to kill a process is to press the reset button on your computer, sacrificing every other process that should be running just fine.