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	<title>DoK - Where Dreams Come From &#187; Utilities Freeware</title>
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		<title>Auto Download from RapidShare &amp; Co.</title>
		<link>http://ansani.it/2008/12/31/auto_download_rapidshare/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 09:59:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Salvatore Ansani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you, like me, surf daily on Internet to search more software to download and, most of all, is on RapidShare like sites, this software is for you !!!! FreeRapid&#8216;s a simple Java downloader that supports downloading from Rapidshare and other file-sharing services. Simply copy and paste your links from a browser to this application. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you, like me, surf daily on Internet to search more software to download and, most of all, is on RapidShare like sites, this software is for you !!!!</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-920" title="ansani.it - FreeRapid Downloader" src="http://ansani.it/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/17373_main_middle.jpg" alt="17373 main middle Auto Download from RapidShare & Co." width="450" height="257" /></p>
<p><strong>FreeRapid</strong>&#8216;s a simple Java downloader that supports downloading from Rapidshare and other file-sharing services. Simply copy and paste your links from a browser to this application. FreeRapid Downloader will handle the rest itself. No more clicking or uncomfortable waiting.</p>
<p><strong>Main Features</strong></p>
<ul>
<li> support for concurrent downloading from *multiple services</li>
<li>downloading using proxy list</li>
<li>download history</li>
<li>smart clipboard monitoring</li>
<li>automatic checking for file&#8217;s existence on server</li>
<li>auto shutdown options</li>
<li>automatic plugins updates</li>
<li>simple CAPTCHA recognition</li>
<li>works on MS Windows, Linux and MacOS</li>
<li>easy to use</li>
<li>multilanguage interface &#8211; Czech, Danish, English, French, German, Hungarian, Chinese, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Slovak, Spanish, Ukrainian</li>
<li>looks amazingly</li>
<li>simply works!</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Currently supported services are:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li> Rapidshare.com (+ premium account)</li>
<li>MegaUpload.com</li>
<li>Megarotic.com and Sexuploader.com</li>
<li>NetLoad.in</li>
<li>MediaFire.com</li>
<li>FileFactory.com</li>
<li>Filebase.to</li>
<li>Uploaded.to</li>
<li>DepositFiles.com</li>
<li>Share-online.biz</li>
<li>Egoshare.com</li>
<li>Easy-share.com</li>
<li>Letibit.net</li>
<li>XtraUpload.de</li>
<li>Shareator.com</li>
<li>Kewlshare.com</li>
<li>SaveFile.com</li>
<li>Ziddu.com</li>
<li>Load.to</li>
<li>Iskladka.cz</li>
<li>HellShare.com</li>
<li>QuickShare.cz</li>
<li>Uloz.to</li>
<li>FlyShare.cz</li>
<li>Edisk.cz</li>
<li>Upnito.sk</li>
<li>CobraShare.sk</li>
<li>Usercash.com (crypter)</li>
</ul>
<p>If you need is, simply go to <a href="http://wordrider.net/freerapid/" target="_blank">this site</a> and enjoy <img src='http://ansani.it/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt="icon wink Auto Download from RapidShare & Co." class='wp-smiley' title="Auto Download from RapidShare & Co." /> </p>
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		<title>The PC Decrapifier</title>
		<link>http://ansani.it/2007/06/13/the-pc-decrapifier/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2007 19:41:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Salvatore Ansani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, you&#8217;re the proud owner of a new PC. You anxiously open the box, dumping out the contents, casting the instructions aside. You feverishly push your old PC off the desk and get the new one set up. On the floor lies a pile of plastic wrap and twist ties. Your brand spanking new PC [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img style="width: 128px; height: 128px" title="The PC Decrapifier" src="http://www.pcdecrapifier.com/system/files/images/file_broken.gif" alt="file broken The PC Decrapifier" hspace="5" vspace="5" width="128" height="128" align="left" />So, you&#8217;re the proud owner of a new PC. You anxiously open the box, dumping out the contents, casting the instructions aside. You feverishly push your old PC off the desk and get the new one set up. On the floor lies a pile of plastic wrap and twist ties. Your brand spanking new PC boots up only to greet you with a plethora of pop up advertisements pestering you to pay for anti-virus software or sign up for a music service. Your desktop is littered with website links for &#8216;special offers.&#8217; The system tray is already full of programs that continuously use your internet connection to make sure that you&#8217;re &#8216;up to date.&#8217;</p>
<p>&#8220;When did I ask for this?&#8221; you ask. Well, you didn&#8217;t and that&#8217;s where the PC Decrapifier comes in. The PC Decrapifier attempts to remove all of the crap on your PC that you never asked for or wanted. To manually remove all of this stuff by hand can take at least an hour (depending on the severity of the infestation.) The PC Decrapifier will detect the &#8216;crap&#8217; on your system, you choose what to uninstall, then sit back and let the PC Decrapifier work its magic.</p>
<p>All of this stuff is placed on your new PC because the big companies like Dell, HP and others sell advertising space on your PC to put more money in their pockets at the expense of your time and frustration.</p>
<p>The PC Decrapifier is a program free for personal use to help the average computer user combat this problem. It is also available for PC technicians at a small fee to use as a tool in their everyday business to save a tremendous amount of time.</p>
<p><a title="The PC Decrapifier" href="http://www.pcdecrapifier.com/" target="_blank">Download 4 FUN</a></p>
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		<title>IP-&gt;Com</title>
		<link>http://ansani.it/2007/03/20/ip-com/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2007 17:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Salvatore Ansani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[IP-&#62;Com is a freeware program to share all/any your COM ports remotely over your local network or the internet, simultaneously. IP-&#62;Com allows any of the existing serial (RS232) ports on your PC to interface directly to a TCP/IP network. This makes it possible for any other computer on the same network to send and receive [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>IP-&gt;Com is a freeware program to share all/any your COM ports remotely over your local network or the internet, simultaneously.</p>
<p>IP-&gt;Com allows any of the existing serial (RS232) ports on your PC to interface directly to a TCP/IP network. This makes it possible for any other computer on the same network to send and receive serial data through a remote serial port on the PC where IP-&gt;Com is running. You connect to the remote serial port by connecting to a TCP/IP port.</p>
<p>It was written in C++ using the Microsoft Foundation Classes, and therefore is reasonably small and efficient.</p>
<h2><a title="Download" name="Download"></a>Download</h2>
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<td width="21%" bgcolor="#ffffff">BetaNews Mirror</td>
<td width="52%" bgcolor="#ffffff"><a href="http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/1045668835/1" target="_top"><img src="http://members.lycos.co.uk/ipcom/images/link_downloadnow.gif" border="0" alt="link downloadnow IP &gt;Com" width="153" height="70" title="IP &gt;Com" /></a></td>
<td rowspan="3" width="24%" bgcolor="#ffffff"><a href="http://members.lycos.co.uk/ipcom/bin/ReadMe.txt">ReadMe</a><br />
<img src="http://members.lycos.co.uk/ipcom/images/windows_logos.gif" border="0" alt="windows logos IP &gt;Com" width="168" height="20" title="IP &gt;Com" /></td>
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<td width="21%" bgcolor="#ffffff">Major Geeks Mirror</td>
<td width="52%" bgcolor="#ffffff"><a href="http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4276.html" target="_top"><img src="http://members.lycos.co.uk/ipcom/images/dl_geeks.gif" border="0" alt="dl geeks IP &gt;Com" width="137" height="62" title="IP &gt;Com" /></a></td>
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<td width="21%" bgcolor="#ffffff">Low bandwidth Mirror</td>
<td width="52%" bgcolor="#ffffff"><a href="http://members.lycos.co.uk/ipcom/bin/ip_com_v3_0_0.exe">IP_Com v3.0.0</a></td>
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<p>MD5: FB5E85BFE8E422A88F3DEE33E0ECFAE3</p>
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<p><img src="http://members.lycos.co.uk/ipcom/images/window.gif" border="0" alt="window IP &gt;Com" width="540" height="254" title="IP &gt;Com" /></p>
<p>Just select the COM port, and configure it, then select which interface address/port you wish to bind it to and then press Enable. Repeat for any other COM ports up to COM32. That&#8217;s all there is to it!</p>
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		<title>WhoLockMe Explorer Extension v1.04 beta (NT-Win2K-XP)</title>
		<link>http://ansani.it/2007/02/27/wholockme-explorer-extension-v104-beta-nt-win2k-xp/</link>
		<comments>http://ansani.it/2007/02/27/wholockme-explorer-extension-v104-beta-nt-win2k-xp/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Feb 2007 13:23:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Salvatore Ansani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To download this freeware: (22KB) Dr. Hoiby is the author of this little freeware. Code written in C++. He can be reached at webmaster@dr-hoiby.com. What is WhoLockMe ? Have you ever bored by this Windows message : &#8220;Error Deleting File or Folder, &#8230; There has been a sharing violation. The source or destination file may [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To download this freeware: <a href="http://www.dr-hoiby.com/WhoLockMe/WhoLockMe104.zip"><img style="border: 0;" src="http://www.dr-hoiby.com/img/floppy.png" border="0" alt="floppy WhoLockMe Explorer Extension v1.04 beta (NT Win2K XP)" width="32" height="32" title="WhoLockMe Explorer Extension v1.04 beta (NT Win2K XP)" /></a> (22KB)<br />
<em>Dr. Hoiby is the author of </em>this little freeware.<br />
Code written in C++. <em>He can be reached at <a href="mailto:webmaster@dr-hoiby.com"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">webmaster@dr-hoiby.com</span></a></em>.<a href="mailto:webmaster@dr-hoiby.com"><img style="border: 0;" src="http://www.dr-hoiby.com/img/Mail.GIF" border="0" alt=" WhoLockMe Explorer Extension v1.04 beta (NT Win2K XP)" width="32" height="32" title="WhoLockMe Explorer Extension v1.04 beta (NT Win2K XP)" /></a></p>
<p><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Verdana;"><strong>W</strong></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">hat is WhoLockMe ?</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Verdana;"><strong>H</strong></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">ave you ever bored by this Windows message : &#8220;<em>Error Deleting File or Folder, &#8230; There has been a sharing violation. The source or destination file may be in use.</em>&#8220;, when you try to delete, move or rename a file ?</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center" align="center"><img src="http://www.dr-hoiby.com/WhoLockMe/Message.gif" alt="Message WhoLockMe Explorer Extension v1.04 beta (NT Win2K XP)" width="350" height="126" title="WhoLockMe Explorer Extension v1.04 beta (NT Win2K XP)" /><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman; color: black;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Verdana;"><strong>W</strong></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">hoLockMe is a little extension for your Microsoft Explorer. It permeets you to list all the process locking your selected file.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center" align="center"><img src="http://www.dr-hoiby.com/WhoLockMe/SnapShot.gif" alt="SnapShot WhoLockMe Explorer Extension v1.04 beta (NT Win2K XP)" width="419" height="403" title="WhoLockMe Explorer Extension v1.04 beta (NT Win2K XP)" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://www.dr-hoiby.com/WhoLockMe/SnapShot2.gif" alt="SnapShot2 WhoLockMe Explorer Extension v1.04 beta (NT Win2K XP)" width="566" height="279" title="WhoLockMe Explorer Extension v1.04 beta (NT Win2K XP)" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center" align="center"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Verdana;"><strong>T</strong></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">his freeware is a beta version, it Doesn&#8217;t work on Win9x or WinMe.</span></span></p>
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		<title>EMCO MoveOnBoot</title>
		<link>http://ansani.it/2007/02/27/emco-moveonboot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Feb 2007 12:24:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Salvatore Ansani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[EMCO Software has brought out an intuitive and handy tool known as EMCO MoveOnBoot, the program has a very basic but very useful features that is very helpful especially when your files are locked by a system utility or any other program that prevents you from changing them. Have you ever faced a problem on [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.emco.is/gif/packages/boxes/moveonboot.gif" alt="moveonboot EMCO MoveOnBoot" align="left" title="EMCO MoveOnBoot" /><strong>EMCO Software </strong>has brought out an intuitive and handy tool known as EMCO <strong>MoveOnBoot</strong>, the program has a very basic but very useful features that is very helpful especially when your files are locked by a system utility or any other program that prevents you from changing them. Have you ever faced a problem on moving, renaming or deleting files that are locked by your system? If this is true in your case then, look no further MoveOnBoot is the best solution for you. It enables you to perform those actions with ease that requires no hectic procedure.<strong><br />
</strong></p>
<p>When you want to delete a file, delete a file in a folder or delete a folder, simply move the file into the program and rename the files or folders that are locked, you can do all this in a breeze.</p>
<p><span style="color: black;"><strong>Below are the main features of EMCO MoveOnBoot:</strong></span></p>
<ul>
<li>Very simple and easy to use interface.</li>
<li>Delete a single or multiple files</li>
<li>Delete a single or multiple files within a folder</li>
<li>Delete a folder</li>
<li>Move a file</li>
<li>Rename a file</li>
</ul>
<p><span style="color: black;"><strong>The main features of EMCO MoveOnBoot are described in more detail below:</strong></span></p>
<ul>
<li><span style="color: black;"><strong>Very simple and easy to use interface</strong> – EMCO MoveOnBoot comes up with a simple and easy to use interface that enables you to get started in a few seconds.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;"><strong>Delete a single or multiple files</strong> – MoveOnBoot enables you to remove a file(s) that are locked by your system with only a few mouse clicks.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;"><strong>Delete a single or multiple files within a folder</strong> – You can also delete locked a file(s) located within a folder in your machine. Just browse to the folder where which you want to remove files. Now specify the file extension for the files you want to remove.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;"><strong>Delete a folder</strong> – Do you want to remove a folder that is locked? Don&#8217;t worry you can do that as well with MoveOnBoot. Just select the folder that you want to remove and it will be removed on next reboot.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;"><strong>Move a file</strong> – EMCO MoveOnBoot also enables you to move files that are locked from one location to the other. All you need is to select the source file and the destination for your file and EMCO MoveOnBoot will handle the rest.</span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="color: black;"><strong>Rename a file</strong> – EMCO MoveOnBoot can help you out in renaming a locked file. All you have to do is just select the source file and type in the new name for the file and it will be renamed on next reboot.<br />
</span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.emco.is/moveonboot/features.html">Visit Product HomePage</a></p>
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		<title>Process Controller is a system tray-based utility to monitor and control the activity and resources of your system in real time.</title>
		<link>http://ansani.it/2007/02/27/3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Feb 2007 10:22:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Salvatore Ansani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Process Controller is a system tray-based utility to monitor and control the activity and resources of your system in real time. This version is based on the excellent original for BeOS by Georges-Edouard Berenger. With it you can: See how much processing power and memory is currently being used in the system. Quit any application, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.k23productions.com/products/process_controller/guide/logo.jpg" alt="logo Process Controller is a system tray based utility to monitor and control the activity and resources of your system in real time."  title="Process Controller is a system tray based utility to monitor and control the activity and resources of your system in real time." /></p>
<p><a href="http://www.k23productions.com/products/process_controller/guide/threads.jpg"><img src="http://www.k23productions.com/products/process_controller/guide/threads.jpg" border="0" alt="threads Process Controller is a system tray based utility to monitor and control the activity and resources of your system in real time." width="128" height="102" align="right" title="Process Controller is a system tray based utility to monitor and control the activity and resources of your system in real time." /></a>Process Controller is a system tray-based utility to monitor and control the activity and resources of your system in real time.  This version is based on the excellent original for BeOS by Georges-Edouard Berenger.  With it you can:</p>
<ul>
<li>See how much processing power and memory is currently being used in the system.</li>
<li>Quit any application, assuming you have sufficient privileges.</li>
<li>View the memory usage of each application.</li>
<li>View the activity of each process and thread in real-time.</li>
<li>View all windows created by each process.</li>
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<p><img src="http://www.k23productions.com/products/process_controller/guide/tray.jpg" alt="tray Process Controller is a system tray based utility to monitor and control the activity and resources of your system in real time." align="right" title="Process Controller is a system tray based utility to monitor and control the activity and resources of your system in real time." /><br />
When run, Process Controller appears in the system tray showing two small meters.  The left-hand meter shows the current processor utilisation and the right-hand meter shows the current memory load.  You can change the colours used as well as selecting to just display processor usage.  On dual processor systems, the left-hand meter is split into two smaller meters showing processor load for each CPU.</p>
<p>When clicked, Process Controller pops up this menu:</p>
<p><img src="http://www.k23productions.com/products/process_controller/guide/m-main.jpg" alt="m main Process Controller is a system tray based utility to monitor and control the activity and resources of your system in real time."  title="Process Controller is a system tray based utility to monitor and control the activity and resources of your system in real time." /></p>
<p><strong>The &#8216;Quit an Application&#8217; Menu</strong></p>
<p>This menu allows you to close an application cleanly by posting a WM_CLOSE message to each of the application&#8217;s windows.  Note that not all applications can receive WM_CLOSE messages (if an application has no windows or you&#8217;re logged on with insufficient security rights), in which case these applications will not appear in the list.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.k23productions.com/products/process_controller/guide/m-apps.jpg" border="0" alt="m apps Process Controller is a system tray based utility to monitor and control the activity and resources of your system in real time."  title="Process Controller is a system tray based utility to monitor and control the activity and resources of your system in real time." /></p>
<p><strong>The &#8216;Spy Memory Usage&#8217; Menu</strong></p>
<p>This menu lets you see how much memory is being used both across the system and individually by each process.  It should be noted that some of these values may be inaccurate due to the way Windows manages memory, and limitations in the APIs.</p>
<p>The following shows the level of information Process Controller can provide about memory usage:</p>
<p><img src="http://www.k23productions.com/products/process_controller/guide/m-memory.jpg" alt="m memory Process Controller is a system tray based utility to monitor and control the activity and resources of your system in real time."  title="Process Controller is a system tray based utility to monitor and control the activity and resources of your system in real time." /></p>
<p>The top line (System Resources &amp; Caches) details the total amount of Committed memory.  That is, the sum of both physical RAM installed in the PC and the current paging file size.  In this example, 272.4MB of memory are currently committed by the operating system (indicated by both the blue and purple areas).  The PC used in this example has 192MB of phyiscal RAM so approximately 80MB is currently paged (stored on disk).</p>
<p>The other figure (106.5MB in this example) and indicated by the dark blue area is the sum of all the currently running processes&#8217; working sets (a process&#8217; working set is the number of pages it has touched recently &#8211; this gives an approximate amount of memory the process is using).  The difference between the two &#8211; indicated by just the purple area &#8211; indicates how much memory is currently used by the operating system, which includes the disk cache, cached binaries (so applications start faster next time they&#8217;re run), device drivers, and other internal structures.</p>
<p>All the other entries show how much memory each process is using.  Here, the right-hand value shows the process&#8217; virtual size &#8211; this is the maximum amount of memory the process <em>has access to</em> and is represented as a percentage of the total committed memory by the light blue bar.  The left-hand value show the process&#8217; current working set, which is a good approximation of how much memory the process is currently using; indicated by the dark blue part of the bar.</p>
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Selecting any process from the menu will bring up a window detailing a bit more information about the process.  The window will remain open until it is either closed or the process it represents terminates.  It can also be made to stay on top of other windows by right-clicking anywhere within it and selecting the option from the menu that appears.</p>
<p><strong>The &#8216;Spy Windows&#8217; Menu</strong></p>
<p>This menu lets you drill down into all the top-level windows a process has created.  Currently Process Controller groups up all the windows for all threads (a thread actually creates a window, not a process) and lists them in a menu showing the window&#8217;s title, if it has one, and class name.  Selecting a window brings up a properties window similar to that shown above that provides more information on the window and allows you to toggle its visible state.</p>
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<p><strong>The &#8216;Kill, Debug or Change Priority&#8217; Menu</strong></p>
<p>This menu provides multiple options:</p>
<ul>
<li>View the activity of all processes and threads running on your PC.</li>
<li>Kill a particular process (assuming you have sufficient privileges) by selecting it from the menu.</li>
<li>Kill or launch a debugger on a particular thread by selecting it.</li>
<li>Alter a thread&#8217;s priority (see below) by selecting an alternative priority from the menu.</li>
</ul>
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<p>Note that there are some processes which always run under Windows, typically these processes cannot be killed or modified in any way:</p>
<ul>
<li>Client Server Run-Time Subsystem (csrss.exe) &#8211; Responsible for managing console windows, creating and deleting threads and parts of the 16-bit virtual MS-DOS environment.</li>
<li>Local Security Authentication Server (lsass.exe) &#8211; Authenticates users for the Winlogon service and, if successful, generates the user&#8217;s access token, which other processes the user initiates inherit.</li>
<li>Task Scheduler (mstask.exe) &#8211; Runs tasks at pre-determined times.</li>
<li>Session Manager (smss.exe) &#8211; Starts the user session and launches both the winlogon and csrss processs.  It also sets things such as system variables.  Once it&#8217;s launched winlogon and csrss it sleeps waitign for either of these two processes to end, it this happens under normal circumstances the system shuts down; otherwise smss causes the system to stop responding.</li>
<li>Spooler (spoolsv.exe) &#8211; Manages spooled print or fax jobs.</li>
<li>Service Host (svchost.exe) &#8211; Acts as a host for other processes running from dlls.  More than one of these can exist in the system at any one time.</li>
<li>Services Control Manager (services.exe) &#8211; Responsible for starting, stopping and interacting with system services.</li>
<li>System &#8211; Runs kernel-mode threads.</li>
<li>System Idle Process &#8211; A single-thread process whose job it is to account for processor time when the CPU isn&#8217;t running other threads.</li>
<li>Windows Logon App (winlogon.exe) &#8211; Responsible for managing user logon and logoff.  Sleeps most of the time, only waking when the user presses CTRL, ALT and DELETE simultaneously, at which point it shows the security dialog box.</li>
<li>Windows Management Instrumentation (winmgmt.exe) &#8211; Or WMI as it&#8217;s more commonly known.  This process initialises when the first client application connects.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Process and Thread Priorities</strong></p>
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Threads are scheduled to run based on their scheduling priority. Each thread is assigned a scheduling priority, which ranges from from zero (lowest priority) to 31 (highest priority). Only the zero-page thread can have a priority of zero. The zero-page thread is a system thread responsible for zeroing any free pages when there are no other threads that need to run.</p>
<p>The system treats all threads with the same priority as equal. The system assigns time slices in a round-robin fashion to all threads with the highest priority. If none of these threads are ready to run, the system assigns time slices in a round-robin fashion to all threads with the next highest priority. If a higher-priority thread becomes available to run, the system ceases to execute the lower-priority thread (without allowing it to finish using its time slice), and assigns a full time slice to the higher-priority thread.</p>
<p>The priority of each thread is determined by the following criteria:</p>
<ul>
<li>The priority class of its process</li>
<li>The priority level of the thread within the priority class of its process</li>
</ul>
<p>The priority class and priority level are combined to form the <em>base priority</em> of a thread.  To complicate matters further individual threads can be given a priority boost, which affects their dynamic priority &#8211; currently Process Controller ignores the dynamic priority of a thread.</p>
<p><strong>Priority Classes</strong></p>
<p>Each process belongs to one of the following priority classes:</p>
<ul>
<li>IDLE_PRIORITY_CLASS</li>
<li>BELOW_NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS</li>
<li>NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS</li>
<li>ABOVE_NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS</li>
<li>HIGH_PRIORITY_CLASS</li>
<li>REALTIME_PRIORITY_CLASS</li>
</ul>
<p>Note that BELOW_NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS and ABOVE_NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS are only supported on Windows 2000 and above.</p>
<p>By default, the priority class of a process is NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS.  However, if the calling process is IDLE_PRIORITY_CLASS or BELOW_NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS, the new process will inherit this class.  Processes that monitor the system, such as screen savers or applications that periodically update a display, should use IDLE_PRIORITY_CLASS. This prevents the threads of this process, which do not have high priority, from interfering with higher priority threads.</p>
<p><strong>Priority Levels</strong></p>
<p>The following are priority levels within each priority class:</p>
<ul>
<li>THREAD_PRIORITY_IDLE</li>
<li>THREAD_PRIORITY_LOWEST</li>
<li>THREAD_PRIORITY_BELOW_NORMAL</li>
<li>THREAD_PRIORITY_NORMAL</li>
<li>THREAD_PRIORITY_ABOVE_NORMAL</li>
<li>THREAD_PRIORITY_HIGHEST</li>
<li>THREAD_PRIORITY_TIME_CRITICAL</li>
</ul>
<p>All threads are created using THREAD_PRIORITY_NORMAL, which means that the thread priority is the same as the process priority class. After a thread is created, it can adjust its priority relative to other threads in the process.  This is what Process Controller currently allows you to do.</p>
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