need a better task manager for Win 7.

[shortylickens]

Something that actually kills the program when I tell it to, not wait 20 seconds then ask me a bunch of dumb questions then wait 10 more seconds to finally do it.

One click kill, no digging thru right-click menu's and verifying a bunch of times.

Oh, and wouldnt really bother me if I had to leave it running in the background all the time either.

 

[Dahak]

you can look at process explorer from Sysinternals

You can even set it to replace task manager and any command that would bring it up will bring up process explorer

 

[Morbus]

Yeah, Process Explorer for all Windows. I haven't found any better.

It makes me laugh at Windows 8 "new" task manager.
As does TeraCopy at its file handler...

 

[PliotronX]

Yeah, Process Explorer for all Windows. I haven't found any better.

It makes me laugh at Windows 8 "new" task manager.
As does TeraCopy at its file handler...

God 8's TM is a load of trash and the integration of startup management = epic fail.

Process Explorer has been a longtime standby. Good thing 8 doesn't break compatibility with it or StartupCPL.

 

[Cerb]

For built-ins:

Right-click->End Process Tree (one dialog box)

taskkill /F /IM imagename.exe (no dialog boxes, usually has to be run from an elevated command prompt to kill the task you really want gone)

 

[oynaz]

you can look at process explorer from Sysinternals

You can even set it to replace task manager and any command that would bring it up will bring up process explorer

It boggles the mind why this isn't included in Windows as standard.

 

[Dahak]

It boggles the mind why this isn't included in Windows as standard.

Well it used to be a separate company, but now that ms bought them a few years back I would rather see it separate still as it gets updated more frequently that way. Also it might be too confusing for the non techs when they hit task manager and see this

 

[ringtail]

here's another vote for Process Explorer.
I've used it for years across several versions of Wondows.

The "Resource Monitor" native to Windows 7 does pretty much the same thing, and maybe is better. Resource Monitor lets me select many processes at one time to kill. Process Explorer makes you select and kill each process individually.