Tag: TASK-MANAGER

Four years after the service opened to the public, popular web-based task manager Remember The Milk is finally out of beta. What does that mean? Nothing really. The company isn't going to start charging for access to its core services. And the developers aren't done adding and refining features. It's just that after four years, the Remember The Milk team decided the product was probably robust ...

There are plenty of good reasons to keep a good Task Manager alternative on your flash drive -- like when some nasty malware has disabled access to Windows' native one. We've mentioned some options before on DownloadSquad, and now there's a new one to add to the mix. Auslogics has just released a free, fully portable app that will only take up a scant 1.7Mb of space on your drive. ATM ...

It's usually pretty obvious when one of your Windows applications goes rogue and starts consuming more resources than it should. Your system becomes sluggish and unresponsive, Usage Monitor is a small, free program that allows you to watch processes for excessive use of memory and GDI/user objects. Set a target on a process - say, 300Mb memory on Firefox - and Usage Monitor can alert you a ...

There are plenty of applications out there that will make the Windows Task Manager more useful or replace it altogether. Blue Task Manager isn't one of them. All this little utility does is change the default color of the graphs and text from green to blue. The effect gives you a slightly more calming way of figuring out why your PC has suddenly become so sluggish. If you just want to give Blue ...

Update: Well that didn't take long. Apparently Google really hadn't meant to unleash this service on the public just yet, because the URL no longer works. Google has, without any fanfare, apparently launched an online task manager application cleverly called Google Tasks. This appears to be a more fleshed out version of the Gmail Tasks widget that showed up in Gmail Labs a few months ago. And ...

Yawffer is a utility for Windows that monitors the time and your computers CPU, memory, and disk usage. You can set it to show some or all of this information in the corner of your computer display, and you can easily adjust the font, size, and color of the text. And that's all mildly useful. But the really cool thing you can do with Yawffer is freeze a running process without closing the ...

JustCloseSomeTasks is one of those rare utilities that does exactly what you think it would. It closes some tasks, but not all of them. The free Windows program monitors all of your running programs. And if you haven't used one of those apps in a while it gets added to the list of programs that JustCloseSomeTasks will kill when you press a hotkey. You can also manually select or deselect tasks ...

Extended Task Manager shows you everything that the built in Windows Task Manager does... and then some. This free utility offers a summary page which shows you al ist of running programs as well as a graph with your CPU usage, Page file usage, disk I/O use and network performance, among other things. And that's just in the first tab. The program has 8 separate tabs that provide detailed ...

MiniTask is a basic cross-platform organization app built on Adobe Air. The learning curve on this app is basically nil, and you'll soon be adding, checking off, and setting alarms for to-do items with ease. There aren't a ton of features, so it's not the greatest for the completely neurotic among us, but if you just need a simple, unfussy to-do list, give it a look. Let's a take a quick look at ...

The Windows Task Manager gives you a good idea of which programs are running and how much RAM they're using. And if you need to kill a runaway process, few things work better than calling up the Task manager and clicking the End Process button. But if you want a more thorough look at what each process is doing, you're probably better off using a separate tool like Process Explorer. Or you could ...

Vito Technology is probably best known for developing software for Windows Mobile and Symbian phones and PDAs. But the company has just made the jump into a new arena: web apps. First up is an online task manager called Task2Gather. The interface is clean and easy to use, if not entirely intuitive. It took me a few moments to figure out how to name new tasks or projects, for example (you type ...

If your computer is running slowly or a program has stopped responding, you can fire up the Windows Task Manager, identify the runaway process, and kill it. That works fine when the process is clearly labeled with a name like firefox.exe or digsby.exe. But what do you do with rapimgr.exe or hpqste08.exe? ProcessQuicklink is a free add-on for Windows Task manage that helps you figure out which ...

If you need to kill a process in Windows, or just try to figure out which program is using up all of your precious system resources, all you have to do is open the Windows Task Manager. But what if you want to kill a non-responsive program, but you can't figure out where it is in the Task Manager? Sometimes the process names don't seem to bear any resemblance to program names. Daphne solves this ...

The Windows task manager might show you a list of running processes, but it does a pretty poor job of letting you know what some of those processes are actually doing. You don't need a Ph.D, to figure out what will happen if you terminate firefox.exe because it's using up 100% of your CPU cycles, but what about spudsvc.exe? ProcX is a free utility that will show a list of running processes also ...

We find that the task managers Microsoft bundles with Windows usually gets the job done if you just need to terminate a running process or see which application is eating up all of your RAM. But we're still kind of smitten by Process Manager 2 Lite, an enhanced process explorer. This little application is a free replacement for the built-in Windows task manager. You can either set it to coexist ...