Tag: TASK MANAGER

You may not call Task Manager up all that often -- and if you do, you've probably grown accustomed to its green-on-black color scheme. If, on the other hand, you're a customizer of all things Windows, you might want to tweak those defaults to something which coordinates better with your overall desktop theme. Task Manager Modder is just the tool for the job. Launch it, adjust the sliders (or ...

The inner geek in all of us is constantly curious about what exactly is going on under the hood of our computer; the trusty ol' Task Manager is usually pretty good at letting us keep an eye on things. Sometimes, however, said inner geek needs a little bit more control over their not-always-well-oiled machine. Process Hacker is an open source application that incorporates all of Task Manager's ...

Windows' built in Task Manager is good enough to get by, but it's not really changed much since NT. If you're looking for a better alternative, MKN TaskExplorer is an option worth downloading. The program window's default view provides a good amount of information without being overwhelming. Double clicking any task brings up a detailed view of its activity including CPU, memory, disk, and ...

Though Brad just covered a nice enhancement for the Windows Task Manager yesterday, I came across something that may make you forget all about using good ol' taskmgr.exe - even in tweaked form. While I don't normally go for the "this app is free, but the paid version is better" thing, AnVir Task Manager Free really surprised me. It's got an insane number of useful features. Apart from performing ...

Knowing what's going on inside your OS is critical to keeping it running smoothly. Sure, task manager and msconfig are built-in to Windows, but they're pretty minimalistic. For something with a little more punch, give Winpatrol a shot - we first looked at it in 2005, and it's bigger and better than ever. Winpatrol offers a software "Swiss-army knife" of features for protecting and tuning your ...

Power users on Windows will be very well acquainted with the Task Manager. This is the utility that can tell you how hard your CPU is working, what it's working on, what your memory usage is, or even how much network traffic your computer is currently using. But did you know that it has a "no titlebar" view? If you want to leave your Task Manager showing on your desktop for a period of time, it ...

One of the most annoying things about Windows Mobile devices is that by default you can only close an application by clicking on the start menu, settings, system, memory, and then running programs tabs. Then you highlight an item and click stop. Whew. That's a 7 click solution. While there are a number of programs out there that let you convert the X button in the upper right corner from ...

Lifehacker brings us a nugget from Davo, one of their avid readers, called What To Do Next. The idea behind the little application is extremely simple; it's written in javascript, and therefore will run on any platform. All it does is act as a front-end to a list of tasks that you would like to accomplish. Clicking on the button for one of the tasks starts a ten minute countdown timer (the time is ...

For the uninitiated, Mac OS X has a cool feature called Exposé whereby a particularly keyboard shortcut makes all of your windows arrange themselves into small versions of themselves displayed all at once for easy task-switching. In the past we've covered a couple of Exposé clones for Windows, but neither was free. SmallWindows is another Exposé clone, but this one is free ...