We have received so many problems regarding several windows and third party process which may hang sometimes and goes into not responding state which in turn create a problem as no other process respond to user mouse action at that point of time.

In such a type of situation a free program like Daphne can be very useful to kill the not responding or hanged process which has caused the whole trouble. Daphne is a small system tray application which can be used for killing, controlling and debugging windows process.

You can kill any process by dragging the mouse over windows, right clicking the process in the Daphne process list and select end process. It can also be used to set any window to be on the top, to be transparent or to be enabled.

Fix:

This program is really useful to shut down some hanging process and speed up by releasing the memory consumed by these programs, it is type of program which has been born to kill process.

Daphne can be really good replacement for windows taskbar as it is so powerful, fast and easy to use. It displays the detailed information about the running process with the help of the columns like CPU usage, Process ID, Process Name, Full Path, Priority , Class, Current Memory usage, Peek Memory usage, Current swap usage, peek swap usage and number of threads etc

Note: Daphne is supported on Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 to debug, kill and control process 

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It happens many times when you run a program which consumes a lot of resources in terms of Memory and CPU, but when you try to do some other operation on windows with this program running, it gets hanged and goes to not responding state in windows.

A Program goes to not responding state, how to recover it or kill it?

In not responding state the program windows does not respond and gets faded in general, at this point of time you are left with no other option to end the program, so you will either need to kill the process via windows task manager. But killing or stopping a process via task manger can be quite cumbersome and complex for a normal user who is not used to using task manager.

In such a situation you can use a free program called Process Manager which embed the option of killing the process or changing its priority. In order for a program to recover from not responding state you can assign the higher priority to the program or if it does not work you can simply kill the process in Windows taskbar itself by right clicking on it in the taskbar.

Let’s see how can your process manager in windows to do both

Fix:

To kill a process or change the priority of a program you will need first run process manager, we would suggest add process manager to windows startup.

Once the process manager is running, you can change the priority of a program shown in the taskbar or even end the process or the program by right clicking on the program in the taskbar. ( as shown in the image above)

If you still have any confusion on how to use process manager you can download the video on how to use it here. As this is an open-source project, you can even get the source code too.

Download Process Manager  | Download Process Manager Source Code (For geeks only)

About The Software Author: Author is a software engineer from Silicon valley of India and an open source enthusiast, you can visit the author site for more details and support.  

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