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Yawffer monitors, safely freezes Windows processes
And that's all mildly useful. But the really cool thing you can do with Yawffer is freeze a running process without closing the program. In other words, if you have a runaway process that's slowing down your system, or you're trying to figure out which process is causing problems, you can pause them with Yawffer.
In order to freeze a process, just right click on the Yawffer icon in your system tray and click the "freeze a process" option. Then just locate a process and click the freeze button. The program won't exit, but it will become unresponsive and its CPU usage should drop until you click the unfreeze button.
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Subscribe to commentsrobotrockJan 29th 2009 3:26PM
This'll come in handy for the dreadfully slow corporate virus scan that runs every morning!
Christian VelasquezJan 29th 2009 3:50PM
Lol @ typo: "puase".
Haha!
That's great.
On topic: I find this to be a very useful utility, it'll make a good Instant Memory Cleaner replacement.
I'll just combo this with SweepRAM and I'm all set.
Adam KJan 29th 2009 3:49PM
Can this be used for games at all? I can definitely forsee a situation in which I'd like to pause my web browser, fire up a game, and then come back to the browser.
dodfrJan 30th 2009 7:25AM
Hi,
It need .NET 2.0 :-( I prefer TinyResMeter that has much more features and is 100KB EXE no .NET runtime.
Stuart HallidayJan 30th 2009 9:13AM
Amazingly I've been able to do this for many years using good old Process Explorer.
You just right click a process and click on suspend. It's a feature of Windows.
MikeJan 30th 2009 3:12PM
@Stuart: Process Explorer is not part of Windows, at least not XP. It's easy enough to get (download from Sysinternals), but it's not built in.
Stuart HallidayJan 31st 2009 2:57PM
Mike, Process Explorer is as you said, not a part of Windows. But the ability to suspend processes is. How do you think PE does it?
I probably wasn't clear in my previous posting.
Look up this phrase "ntdll!NtSuspendProcess", it's a feature of the ntdll.dll :-)
It's an officially undocumented API.
PsTools brought this feature to light a long time ago. See PSsuspend.exe which made use of this call. I can even suspend a process on another computer on the LAN. :-)