WinTasks Standard WinTasks 4 Standard - Tweak Your System Platforms: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003     Size: 1.15 M     Cost: $49 Buy full version       Trial version       Publisher: Uniblue     Descriptions WinTasks Standard: Most computer users are willing to spend hundreds of dollars on expensive hardware to get a system capable of running the latest games as well as playing DVD movies or MP3 music. However, with the right tools, you can make your system run both faster and more smoothly within minutes. Efficient resource and task management is absolutely critical if you want to achieve the highest system performance levels possible. WinTasks 4 will not only help you achieve this task, but will actually make your system run faster and more smoothly than ever before. Why You Need WinTasks 4 Standard Free Up Valuable Computer Resources Increase overall system performance by freeing up and assigning all available resources to the tasks that are actually important. WinTasks 4 makes it easier than ever before to find and remove unnecessary background processes, as well as assign more resources to demanding processes like games, realtime multi-media applications and CD writing software. Increase System Security WinTasks 4 helps you to improve system security and prevent viruses and other unwanted processes from running unnoticed on your computer. WinTasks can also remove spyware, adware and other security threats and gives you the power to terminate any program even if it is invisible in the Windows Task Manager. By logging CPU and memory usage, you can also track down and remove scheduled processes that might pose a threat to your computer. Improve Multimedia Playback and Processing Improve audio quality, prevent visual artifacts, and increase framerates by tuning your system for advanced media processing and decoding tasks. By removing interfering processes and freeing up system resources, you can make multi-media applications run smoother and faster. By assigning a higher priority to realtime tasks like decoding or CD writing, you can ensure that the process is not interrupted by other processes, resulting in error free media playback and recording without gaps and artifacts. Improve Disk Access and Solve Sharing Problems By assigning a higher priority to sensitive disk operations, like defragging, you can speed up these operations considerably. You can also remove interfering processes to minimize sharing errors that might cause your defragging software to be restarted over and over. WinTask Feature Overview WIN = Windows Built-in Task Manager STD= WinTasks 4 Standard, PRO =WinTasks 4 Professional WinTasks 4 Features WIN* STD* PRO*  General Features Load WinTasks at Startup - Automatically starts WinTasks in the background when the computer is rebooted. Customize User Interface - Visible information, columns and windows can be customized at any time. Process Presets - Stores the current process list with priorities. Can be used to easily restore system states or clean up the system. Print Report - Sends information in text format to a printer. Save Report - Saves any information in tab separated text format. Process lists and other information can easily be copied into Excel, Word or other programs.  General Information Number of processes currently running () System CPU usage () System memory usage () Total physical memory CPU usage graphs for up to 24 hours Memory usage graphs for up to 24 hours  Process Operations Stop one or many processes with a single click. Change the priority of one or many processes with a single click. Start new processes. Save running processes and priorities to presets to quickly restore a system state later, for example: By creating a preset after rebooting and removing all unnecessary processes, you can quickly and easily clean up your system and return to the initial configuration at any time.  Process Information User-friendly names, for example: "Google - Microsoft Internet Explorer" instead of "iexplore.exe" Executable with full path, for example: C:Program FilesInternet ExplorerIEXPLORE.EXE Process priorities, name and numeric, for example: Normal(9) Number of Threads owned by a process Realtime CPU usage per process () () Realtime Memory usage per process () () Process creation times - Sort process by creation time to find new processes more easily. Executable file properties and version information Descriptions on many common processes, for example: spoolsv.exe -> Windows spooler (Printer job handling) (cannot be modified in NT/2000/XP, owned by system). Editable process names - By simply editing the name of a process you can assign your own names to common processes. User notes per process CPU usage graphs per process for up to 24 hours - Can be used to optimize applications. () Memory usage graphs per process for up to 24 hours - Can be used to find memory leaks. () Process Log shows all started and stopped processes.  Window Operations Close one or many windows owned by the selected process with a single click. Minimize one or many windows owned by the selected process. Maximize one or many windows owned by the selected process. Normalize one or many windows owned by the selected process. Show one or many invisible windows owned by the selected process. Hide one or many windows owned by the selected process.  Window Information User-friendly window names - Usually the current window title. Visibility - Tells you whether a specific window is visible or hidden. State - Tells you whether a window is minimized, maximized or normalized. Active - Tells you which window is currently receiving user input. Window Log shows all created and removed windows.  DLL Information DLLs used by selected process DLL Log shows all loaded and unloaded DLLs.  Autostart Operations Add Autostart Item - Starts a selected program at start up. Remove Autostart Item Permanently - Removes an autostarted program from the registry. Disable/Enable Autostart Item - Disables/enables autostart items.  Autostart Information Executable and parameters of all programs started from the registry at start up. Enabled/Disabled - Tells you whether an auto-start item has been temporarily disabled from WinTasks.  Scripting Features Create and run any number of scripts in simultaneously in the background. Scripts can track process CPU and memory usage and stop or modify processes when a certain condition is met. Scripts can search for a specific executable file and stop or modify any processes that match the criteria. Scripts can search for processes with a specific title, for example: You could create a background script that automatically stops Internet Explorer when a certain website is visited. Scripts can start or stop processes when conditions are met, for example: You could link several programs together so that when one of them is started, the others are automatically started. ( ) = Only available in Windows NT/2000/XP

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