Freeware Directory

Freeware - System Tools - Task Managers

Install or upgrade a Micosoft Windows Operating System on your computer with the setup files on your hard disk. UWin Installer (UWI) is a tool to quickly & easily perform an unattended upgrade or install of a Windows operating system.

If your security applications are vulnerable to simple termination attacks Advanced Process Termination (APT) is a small but powerful utility that provides ten (10) different process termination techniques, two (2) suspension/resumption techniques, and two (2) crash techniques - all at the click of a button, making it ideal for testing the resistance of software to termination attacks, as well as terminating stubborn software that just refuses to terminate!

PowerPro gives you a compact and powerful launch bar, menu, and tray icon facility. But this is just the start, with a little experimenting with its configuration you'll find that you can use PowerPro to change the way you work with your Windows system. The source of its power is the way PowerPro integrates three capabilities - Running commands, Controlling other program's windows and Providing utility functions.

Quick Security Center will help you manage, turn on or off Windows Firewall and Windows Automatic Updates from the convenience of your system tray. Quick Security Center is 100% free of Spyware and completely free to use, this software is a must for laptop users who change from LAN to Dialup regularly.

Access almost every system or hidden Windows application, and create shortcuts on your desktop with a simple right mouse-click. With SysRunner you can access - Windows Accessories, Games, Control Panel items, Sound Tools. Hidden Windows Power Tools, Network and Internet managment applications, Desktop System shortcuts, Windows Monitoring Tools and much more.

a-squared HiJackFree is a detailed system analysis tool which helps advanced users to detect and remove all types of HiJackers, Spyware, Adware, Trojans and Worms. Manage all types of Autoruns on your system, Explorer and Browser plugins (BHOs, Toolbars, etc) running Processes and their associated modules, control all Services, even those Windows doesn't display, view open ports and the associated listening processes and edit the hosts file. Comes with language packs for English, German, French and Spanish. You can switch to your preferred language after starting the software.
Recommended for *experienced* users only.

HotKicks - the tiny program that gives you complete control over your Windows® Operating system. If you like using hotkey combinations you will love this little program. There is a hotkey for the most important functions, and you can define your own hotkey combinations to launch your programs (including batch launching). You can also send keystrokes and text to other applications and automate various processes.

System Pitstop is a program designed to automate the maintenance of the Windows XP Operating System. Automatically execute WinXP's proprietary programs - Chkdsk, System File Checker and Disk Defragmenter. Automatically - create a WinXP System Restore Point, execute 3rd party programs, shutdown 3rd party programs after they have completed their tasks. Includes separate execution timers for each program, can be scheduled via XP's Scheduled Tasks service, and more!

VisualCron is a free task scheduler for Windows that works like cron on linux/unix. VisualCron has an easy-to-use interface with a lot of features and functionality. It is able to log events and print the tasklist, create statistics like executing time etc. etc. Requires the MS .NET framework, will run on other versions of Windows if this is installed. There are 2 downloads available, one includes the 20 Mb framework the other does not.

SysTree++ is a cross-over between MS Spy++ and TaskManager, a complete tree-hierarchy of your system, so you can see literally everything that's running on your system. Lets you monitor, manage and save all processes, threads and windows running on system. You can set the priority for processes and threads. End processes and individual threads without warning popups. Toggle windows visibility. Easily copy info text to clipboard and save all info to a text file.

Startup Inspector for Windows is a Windows™ platform software that helps you to manage Windows™ startup applications. There are more than 3,900 known programs in our database. Startup Inspector for Windows can thus provide consultative information on the programs that are running in your Windows startup process. Whether a program is necessary to the system, or is the program spyware or worse!

XP SysPad is a launcher which makes access to Windows system utilities its specialty. All of the prime Windows system info and utilites such as the individual control panel applets, can be launched with the click of one button, which makes it easier than hunting around the explorer pane or waiting for menus to fold out. For convenience, it can also minimize itself to the system tray. It launches over 145 functions in all!

Lutow helps to control which programs are to be started during windows startup. Lutow reads the registry runs and displays them in a listview, this way it is very easy to sperate the programs that are annoying or even harmful (such as trojans or some viruses) and the ones that are needed to complete your startup successfully. To protect you from data loss LUTOW creates up to 6 automatic backups! Use of this program is only recommended for "windows experts", inexperienced users might do more harm than good.

TMR is a smart utility designed for people who need a lightweight reminder or are looking for a fast way to automate simple tasks. You can schedule messages or actions, like shutting down or restarting your computer, opening a file, or starting an application, with either a few clicks or from the command line. TMR is designed to work on windows scheduled tasks, so it won't waste your system resources running in the background, and you'll have all the advanced scheduling features provided by the os.

PrioSet is a simple program launcher that let you set the system level priority of any application. PrioSet can relieve your processor by lowering the share of resources that goes into background processes. Just set their priority to 'Idle' and they won't bother you anymore. You can also make sure the CD burden program gets enough processor power by selecting 'Real time' mode. Command line arguments are also supported. (Windows 98 is recommended, but since no system files are overwritten during the installation, there is no risk in testing on Windows 95. PrioSet has also been tested on Windows XP.)

Keep track of the programs your computer runs, even when you're away. This Power Tool runs invisibly, and creates a log file (snoop.log) that records the starting and stopping of every program. The program can be used to detect tampering, or just to track the time spent using each program.

Allows you to kill services through the NT task manager. The program runs the NT task manager with special privileges: Now you can kill services through the task manager.

This program can handle all your visible and invisible applications running on your computer! It can also be used to trace Trojans/Patches in your memory, because it shows all programs and services, even though they were meant to be invisible. You can choose a service and decide wether it should appear as an invisible service or a visible, it is also possible to close/terminate processes that are not available in the CTRL+ALT+DEL menu! In fact this program acts much like the taskmanager for Windows NT, just better!

This is a powerful task killer. TaskMan is better that Windows' TaskManager because it tries two methods to kill a window, and also doesn't wait 30 seconds before killing the app.