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shutDownAgent Waits For Processes Before Shutting Down/Restarting PC

There are situations where we have to keep our PC on for a long time, and we know that we won’t be there in time to turn it off once the process completes. For instance, if you are waiting for a big download to complete, a lengthy Windows process like defragmentation to finish, or an [...] (more…)

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Knas Restarter: Audit & Automatically Restart Important Processes

Previously, we covered some local and remote Windows Services monitoring tools, such as Windows Service Monitor, ServiceCommander and Free Windows Service Monitor. They allow you to monitor running Windows Services and Start, Stop, Resume etc, them, but what if you want to keep an application process running at all times, and know that you will [...] (more…)

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Define Process Priority To Increase Performance With Process Prioritizer

There are some applications that hog up too much memory even when you don’t need them, lowering the responsiveness of your computer and making other, more important applications, run slower. Process Prioritizer is an application that allows you to adjust the priority of running applications, so that memory intensive applications will not interfere with others. [...] (more…)

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Bear: View All GDI & User Objects Of Applications To Identify Memory Leaks

You may know that Windows native Application Program Interface, namely GDI (Graphics Device Interface), handles and represents all graphics-related objects and transmit these objects to output devices such as display monitor, multimedia projectors, printers etc. Not only does it keep all graphical objects present in running processes including Explorer, DWM (Desktop Windows Manager ), Client [...] (more…)

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Hide Application And Kill Process At Defined Time With Daphne

Daphne is a Windows Task Manager replacement that lets you kill processes at a predefined time, set an application to run always-on-top, change processes’ and threads’ priorities, and look up information for an unknown process from drk.com.ar online database. You can tweak its look and feel, add items to the kill menu, include traps, integrate [...] (more…)

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Prio: Save Application Process Priority, Check Its Network Connections & Integrity

Although  Windows 7 Task Manager allows changing the processing priority of running applications, it doesn’t have an option to save the processing priority for applications and their processes. If you want to run a specific system/user initiated process with, let’s say, High priority, you need to manually set the processing priority to High (from Task [...] (more…)

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Automatically Watch & Restart Crashed Processes With ReStartMe

Parental controls, P2P clients, antivirus software, backup and communication tools; almost all of us like to keep these applications running all the time. Sometimes, these applications crash when we are not around our PC and the processes are interrupted. For example, you start a download before leaving for work, hoping to make us of it [...] (more…)

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Get Detailed Information About Process Threads With ProcessThreadsView

A thread of execution is the smallest unit of processing that can be scheduled by an operating system. It generally results in two  or more concurrently running tasks. ProcessThreadsView is a new portable application from Nirsoft which provides extensive information about all threads of a selected process. The threads information includes the ThreadID, Context Switches Count, [...] (more…)

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Tune Up Your Windows 8 / 7 By Changing The Process Priorities

Do you think that any particular application is running too slow in your Windows 7 or Windows 8? Sometimes the application we are using run quite slowly while other less important apps run perfectly fine, this is because Windows assigns equal priority to every program. You can increase the priority of any application by increasing the [...] (more…)

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Process Explorer – Alternative To Windows Task Manager And Resource Monitor

Windows Task Manager and Resource Monitor are the first things that come to a user’s mind when he/she is facing any problem with his/her system’s performance. If you are looking for some advanced tool in this regards then you should give Process Explorer a try. Task Manager does not give you much details about the [...] (more…)

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How To Change Priority Of A Process In Ubuntu Linux

As you all know that the process is an instance of a computer program and one process may consist of many threads. Process Management is one of the most important responsibility of the operating systems. Ubuntu start many processes with priority 0, which is the highest priority (as the rule of thumb is that the [...] (more…)

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How To Reinstall Trial Software After Trial Period Has Expired

One of our reader asked a simple question, “Do you have any idea how to reinstall trial software? (after trial period)?” A simple Google search shows that most people are looking for it’s solution. I have two methods which you can try, one of them should definitely work. Method 1: Backing Up Registry Most trial [...] (more…)

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How To Remove All Effects Of A Virus From Your Windows System

If a virus attacks your system, the first thing you will do is to remove the virus with an anti-virus software. But what then? Your system will still likely to remain corrupted. This is because some types of viruses usually tweak the system registry and file systems. If you remove the virus, your system registry [...] (more…)

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VirtualDub – Desktop Video Processing And Capture Application

I recently was searching for a video processing tool when I came across VirtualDub. It is a free opensource software that can capture, edit and process videos instantly. Recently the author has added the support of  MPEG2 / DVD ,WMV / ASF, AC3, QuickTime, Flash Video, MP4 / 3GP, FLIC PVN, R3D (Redcode RAW files), [...] (more…)

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How To Convert Your Digital Camera Into A Scanner With Snapter

Do you want to scan some notes, but don’t have a scanner? If you have a digital camera you can now convert it into a simple scanner with the help of Snapter. It is one powerful application that turns your digital camera into a fully featured scanner. All you have to do is take a [...] (more…)