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Task Killer is a Windows's built-in task manager replacement that is simpler, faster, and more flexible to use. It also consumes only small memory.

The hotkey is great...

Probably the most sweet thing from this app is that you can assign a hotkey to display the list of all running processes and services. It will pop-up under your mouse cursor when the hotkey is pressed. The default display is when you click the app's icon in the system tray, but I prefer to use this configurable hotkey.

Moreover, the hotkey can be configured to display all or certain tasks. So, if you happen to kill the explorer.exe when it gets unstable, just press the hotkey specifically created to display only the process instead of displaying all the tasks. This is just an example of how you can do several things more efficient by using this tiny program compared to what the Windows's built-in task manager can do.

Another nice thing is...

You can choose any processes and services from the list to be not displayed. This is good since you can become easily identify all the content of the list. The icon for each item ease the identification as well.

All in all, it is designed at least to:
1. Provide you speed in detecting which running process or application that eats up memory a lot.
2. Stopping any process in one-click, or two-clicks if you enable the prompt.

However, I found that services can't be terminated or started. It only displays all the services without giving any additional information whether it is active or not. I hope this will be fixed on the next version update.

Publisher: RSD Software
For: Windows 95, 98, Me, NT, 2000, XP
License: Freeware
Version reviewed: 2.30

Visit the homepage of Task Killer to download it.