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daphne windows app

Daphne is a small (system tray) open source application for killing, controlling and debugging Windows' (2000, XP, 2003 and Vista) processes. It was born to kill a Windows process and became almost a task manager replacement.

The main window displays a list of currently running process with detailed information about: CPU usage, Process ID, Process name, Full path (and arguments), Priority, Class (Process / Service), Current memory usage, Peek memory usage, Current swap usage, Peek swap usage and Number of threads.

Features:

  • Enhanced (experimental) multidesktop feature: use up to four windows desktops using WindowsKey + F5 to F8.
  • Installed software list for inspecting installed software available in tray icon menu. Installed software
  • Check process hierarchy tree using the "Show process tree" at tray icon menu. Process tree
  • Parent process name an PID at process' properties.
  • Now you can make configuration portable using INI file instead of registry base configuration.
  • Support for DRK's process data base information search and contribution.
  • Hide application tool: drop the target over the application's window you want to hide. Later, you can restore the application from Daphne menu.
  • Hide application, makes an application disappear but keeps it running to get more desktop space.
  • Find process window tool: identify the process which owns the targeted window.
  • Traps: you can set up traps to be applied to any process being created.
  • Detailed process list, including full path and arguments.
  • Per process detail including: Windows tree, thread list, modules, enviroment variables.
  • Using the windows tree you can: Show, hide, set always on top on or off, set focus, et cetera to any give window.
  • Kill all by name: Kill all process using a given name.
  • Kill menu: Customizable menu, each menu item has a process list to kill upon activation.
  • Process list highlighting with colors for custom, system and high CPU-consumption processes.
  • Control inspector window for revealing hidden passwords.
  • Drag and drop tool for killing, setting alpha, enabling controls and putting windows always on top.
  • "Hide Java VM from command line" option in advanced tab makes Daphne strip the path to the default Java VM in full path mode.
  • Internationalization: Spanish, Italian, German, French, Chinese, Valencian, Polish, Russian, Portuguese and Japanese support.
Download Daphne | Once again, thanks to Tinhed for suggesting this great app.