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Have Your PC Automatically Restore To A Defined State After Reboot

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People usually treat public PCs quite recklessly. Apart from use them for exchanging emails, transferring files, browsing websites, ogling at their social media profiles and streaming YouTube content, many also carelessly install crapware over them and mess up many settings. This not only leaves various traces of their activities and unknown software on the that PC that eventually bogs down its performance, but can also cause issues for other users of the machines. Since the usage of computers placed at public locations is high, it can be quite tedious to maintain them on regular basis. When it comes to such situations, Reboot Restore Rx can be a terrific solution. What this application does is automatically restoring the computer to a custom predefined baseline so that whenever a PC is rebooted, it reverts any changes made to the system during the previous session. This gives users complete control over PCs located at schools, internet cafes, hotels, kiosks etc., while making the task of maintaining them much easier for their administrators. Read More

How To Sleep, Restart, Shutdown Windows 8 via Right Click Context Menu

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Accessing power options in Windows 8 takes way too many steps. You first drag your mouse to the top right corner to activate Charms, click on Settings, click on Power and then click on Sleep, Shutdown or Restart. This can be reduced to just two steps by using Windows 8 keyboard shortcuts like ALT+F4 or Win+I, but it still isn’t as quick as one would like. With that in mind, SkyKOG on XDA Developers came up with a simple solution: put the Power options in the right click menu. Find how how to apply his ‘hack’ after the jump. Read More

Functional: Log Out, Sleep, Shutdown & Restart OS X From The Dock

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The menus on the left in the OS X Menu Bar change when different app windows are selected but the Apple menu doesn’t go anywhere. That little menu gives you access to the System Preferences, Dock preferences, Network Preferences, the App Store, and options to sleep, restart, shut down or log out of the system. There is an alternative way to access most of these functions. The System Preferences, the App Store and the Dock preferences can all be accessed from the Dock itself or, by extension, from the System Preferences. However, there are no native shortcuts for the frequently used power and log out options. That is where Functional comes in. This free Mac app is a combo of four others. It is added to the Dock as a Stack that, when clicked, shows separate buttons for Restart, Log out, Sleep and Shut Down (the four apps in Functional). Clicking each button executes the corresponding action. Read More

Simple ShutDown Timer: Schedule Mac Shutdown, Restart & Sleep

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Mountain Lion’s new features have earned a lot of attention and plenty of detailed coverage online. As far as new features go, Mountain Lion is one kitty that loves to nap, so much so that you need a Terminal command to stop Mountain Lion from going to sleep. If you aren’t that crazy about going to Terminal and then calculating the exact number of seconds needed to delay your system going to sleep, you will be glad to know there’s an app for that. Simple ShutDown Timer is a Mac app worth $0.99 that not only lets you schedule what time your system goes to sleep, but also allows you to schedule a system shutdown and restart. You have the option to choose both the date and time to set up a system sleep or shutdown schedule. Additionally, it requires your account password to create a schedule, preventing guest users from scheduling the system sleep and shutdown task. The app is available on a trial that allows you to run the app for only ten times before you have to buy a license. Read More

ProcessAlive Automatically Restarts User-Defined Programs When They Crash

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Applications like parental control programs, P2P clients, antivirus software and scheduled backup tools, all require to be continuously running in order to work properly. However, with hundreds of things that can go wrong within an operating system, some of these tools can also act abnormally and can easily crash. And the result is an important application crashing or going into Not Responding status, has caused some serious problem and even system hang. We have covered some very useful applications that enable you to choose particular processes for automatic restart upon a crash. These include Restarter, a portable application for Windows that sits quietly in the system tray and lets you easily restart explorer.exe, aero services and kill non-responding tasks whenever required.  We also reviewed Application Monitor, another free tool that monitors specified applications and restarts them, should they crash. If you didn't find these tools of any use or were looking for an alternative solution, then you give ProcessAlive a shot. What it does is, it automatically re-launches crashed programs and is particularly useful for processes that need to constantly run in the background. More details about ProcessAlive past the break. Read More

Restarter: Restart Explorer, Aero Services & Kill Not Responding Tasks

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To enable registry changes to take place, normally one has to restart their computer. This not only puts a stop to your work, but a lot of time is also wasted by the user in reopening all the closed applications, folders and files again. The same effect that restarting the whole PC has, can also be achieved by restarting just the Explorer.exe process. Previously, we have covered a tip on how to restart Explorer.exe process properly in Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7, and add an extra function in the Shutdown menu of Windows XP enabling you to terminate and restart Explorer.exe. We also reviewed a software called Application Monitor, a free tool that monitors user-specified applications and whenever they crash, restart them immediately. However, both these tools do not provide you with a one-click solution for restarting the Explorer.exe process. Restarter is a portable application for Windows that sits quietly in the system tray and lets you easily restart explorer.exe whenever required. There are some other useful options, such as restarting the aero services and killing non-responding processes. Keep reading to find out about all the little application has to offer. Read More

Knas Restarter: Audit & Automatically Restart Important Processes

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There are a lot of useful applications available for local and remote monitoring of Windows Services, such as Windows Service Monitor, a tool used to monitor, start and stop user-specified services and ServiceCommander, which lets you Start, Stop, Pause, Resume or Restart selected services on any computer in your network. They serve you in blocking all the Windows Services that are not needed, and restart the important ones, which crash or get stopped because of some other process. However, a situation may arise where you need to keep an application process running at all times, but you know that you will not be around to restart the application in case it stops working. You can, either ask someone else to turn it on for you, or use the following software. Knas Restarter is a portable application for Windows that automatically starts an application if it stops working due to one reason or another. It is a process monitoring tool that lets you monitor a single running process, and define actions to be performed when the process stops. More on Knas Restart after the jump. Read More

Automatically Watch & Restart Crashed Processes With ReStartMe

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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 upon coming back. However, sometime during the day, your download manager crashes, the download gets interrupted and you're left to wait again after manually restarting the program. Why? Because, while your PC was unattended, no one was there to restart the download manager for you. ReStartMe is designed for just that. Once you set the application to monitor a process, whenever the process crashes or exits, ReStartMe will start it again. You can either select from a list of running processes, or start a new process by browsing for an executable file. The application can watch multiple processes at a time, and adds a password so that others cannot add or remove processes from the watch list. Read More

Schedule & Remotely Shutdown/Restart Your PC From Mobile Phone

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Downloading a large file that has an hour left to complete, and you don’t want to stay up just to shut down your PC? Stepped out in a rush and forgot to put your system to hibernate? Perhaps you want your VPN connection to terminate after a certain interval, or want a certain application to automatically launch at a certain time? For all these cases, Airytec Switch Off comes in handy. Read More

How To Stop Windows 7 From Automatic Reboot And Shutdown

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How many times have you seen a driver, system update, or an application restarting or shutting down your computer after installation without even asking for your permission? Automatic restart or shutdown has always annoyed me since the day I started learning to use Windows(that was almost a decade back). Read More

How To Restart Explorer.exe Process Properly In Windows 7, Vista, XP

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Do you usually restart your computer for registry changes to take place? Or restart explorer.exe process using task manager? This method maybe effective but it is like forcibly killing the process instead of terminating it properly, however there is a hidden option in Windows 7 / Vista Start Menu and an extra function in Shutdown menu of Windows XP that allows you to terminate and restart Explorer.exe properly. Follow these steps to get that option visible and properly terminate Explorer.exe. Read More