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WTF utility? Shameless plug for one of my programs..

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One of the members on our forum posted this question:

I was wondering if anyone can recommend a utility that could easily let me know when some program or process takes over a machine.

For example, I was at a client site and unbeknownst to me or the client, something slowed things down to below a crawl.  In fact, the client said this happens periodically and they end up rebooting.  I explained it was not a good idea and that something was running in the background to the detriment of anything else.  In this case it was a Quickbooks POS background download, but it could have been anything.  There was no obvious notification that this was happening (other than broadband activity).

On my development system, I had a recurring issue that completely tied up my mouse cursor.  I was dead in the water for as much as 30 minutes several times a day.  It went away after I removed the disk backup agent software. 

I wish there was some type of WTF (what the f---???) key for this purpose in Windows.  Does anyone know of anything better than using task manager to identify ill-behaved software?

My reply:

That's kind of an ironic request to post on this site because one of the more popular programs I've written is called "Process Tamer", which many use for the exact purpose you are describing:

https://www.donation...proctamer/index.html

You might also like to read this writeup from gizmo's techsupportalert newsletter describing how he used it for the kind of thing you are talking about..

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