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Daphne Offers Drag-and-Drop Process Control
Posted by Kevin Purdy at 10:00 PM on April 25, 2008
Windows only: Killing runaway, memory-gobbling processes from Windows' task manager is easy—if you know the name of every process and thread on your system and which apps they match up with. Daphne, a free Windows process management utility, gives you a unique set of crosshairs to drag onto the window of any app giving you trouble. There's also a magnifying glass that reveals properties and even passwords of any window it stops on, and Daphne can call back to its DRK database to identify any apps you might want exlained. Daphne is a free download for Windows systems only. For more tools and tips on knocking down memory-grabbers, see our guide to mastering Windows' Task Manager.
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garethkeenan
Posted 10:50 PM 25/4/08
I haven't tried this but I know Process Explorer does the exact same thing and can also replaces Task Manager.
garethkeenan
daddydave
Posted 11:31 PM 25/4/08
I too haven't tried it yet (sorry), but I like the idea of crosshairs, reminds me of xkill
daddydave
mochamatt
Posted 12:35 AM 26/4/08
Second on the 'Process Explorer already does this' train, but that looks interesting nonetheless.
mochamatt
Scott Wegner
Posted 12:47 AM 26/4/08
The ability to reveal passwords on any process, AND call back to a database? Scary.
--Scott
Scott Wegner
ProReviewer
Posted 6:04 AM 26/4/08
I think Daphne has some very good features. Have a look her for more details:
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ProReviewer
zkam
Posted 6:44 AM 26/4/08
Along with Process Explorer, PrcView also has the crosshair feature. Also, PrcView can kill multiple processes at once, either from the GUI or the command line version (pv.exe).
zkam
prototype_angel
Posted 3:20 PM 26/4/08
Sidenote: if you are running linux, running "xkill" on the terminal and clicking on any active process terminates it.
prototype_angel