Useful Thing- TrayKiller This week's Useful Thing is a program named TrayKiller. TrayKiller sits in your system tray ready to shut down any program or groups of programs you have running in the background. Multiple instances of TrayKiller can be configured to shut down specific groups of programs. TrayKiller can also restart those programs when the need for them to be off is finished. Once you start using this program I'm sure you will wish you had known about it sooner. Here's a description of TrayKiller from it's home site- "Most people have quite a few processes/programs that start-up automatically with windows and run in the background on their computer. These programs provide extra functionality but can slow down your computer. Most of the time this is not an issue of concern, but occassionally you want to have your computer running at top speed, such as when playing games, burning a cdrom, or capturing video. In these cases, it is desirable to shut down all non-essential programs. TrayKiller automates this process, and can automatically restart the programs when you are done with the processor intensive task. TrayKiller resides in your system tray and can be toggled, with a double-click of your mouse, between two states, an On state and an Off state. When toggling into the On state, TrayKiller activates a set of programs you specify. When toggling into the Off state, TrayKiller searches for and terminates a set of programs you specify. TrayKiller can also be configured as a more flexible replacement for the ctrl-alt-delete box, allowing you to interactively select which running processes to shut down, or run in batch mode to non-interactively search for and terminate a list of processes and then shut down. You can run multiple instances of TrayKiller simultaneously using different configuration files, allowing you to easily start and stop different groups of programs, and each configuration file can be customized with your own icon sets. Each configuration file can be individually configured to load automatically when windows starts." The file is 1.3M and can be found here- http://www.students.uiuc.edu/~reichler/TrayKiller/index.html Program requirements: Windows 95 / 98 / ME / NT / 2000 Ben Cooper < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > U-T archives - http://www.mail-archive.com/useful-things@ashlists.org/ U-T website - http://www.ashlists.org/useful-things/
