We’ve featured programs that close down non-essential Windows apps before, as well as ways to kill those regularly problematic apps. If you’d rather not install extra software, though, here’s a way to create your own desktop shortcut to kill all running apps.
Windows: Whether you want music to play after a timer count down, to defrag after a period of idleness or to shutdown after CPU activity drops to a certain level, TimeComX offers dead-simple event management.
Windows only: Soluto bills itself as an “Anti-Frustration Software”, and it’s not hard to see why — it tracks all the applications in your system boot process, and tells you exactly which ones are slowing you down.
Windows only: Superior Task Manager replacement Process Explorer continues to improve on an already impressive set of features, this time with more informative tooltips, .NET process information and other fixes.
Windows: If you’re a fan of system monitoring applications but you’re constantly underwhelmed by how little they actually monitor — just memory and CPU usage? Pitiful! — then you’ll want to take a look at Glint, a more-is-better system monitor.
Windows 7: If you like visual indicators for things like disk capacity, battery life, memory usage and speaker volume, and you like them prominent and easy to find, SuperbarMonitor puts easy to read indicators right on your Superbar.
Windows only: If you’ve ever come back to your PC and noticed it was rebooted, you might be curious to know exactly when it was shut down, and the Guiding Tech blog has a quick tip to help.
Windows: WinPatrol Plus is a powerful Windows monitoring tool which regularly retails for $US40. It’s available, today only, for 99 US cents.
Windows only: Planning an upgrade soon? Save yourself the web searches for your specs and download Speccy. Speccy does a quick scan of your machine and gives you a complete rundown of every piece of gear that’s in your computer.
