Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Freeware
Daphne: Drag and drop process explorer
by Brad Linder Apr 25th 2008
Daphne solves this problem, by letting you drag and drop a little crosshair onto any running program on your PC. At its most basic level, Daphne lets you figure out which process goes with which program by highlighting the process in a list of running processes.
But you can also use Daphne to kill running programs, hide applications, or killing every process with the same name. Daphne would be worth checking out for its highly configurable task manager alone. But the drag and drop function is what makes this free utility really killer.
[via Lifehacker]
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zkam said 4:43PM on 4-25-2008
FYI, Process Explorer and PrcView both have the drag-and-drop crosshair tool. PrcView also has a command line version (pv.exe) which can also be used to kill multiple processes at once, like "pv -k -f fire*.exe"
As for hiding apps or making them transparent, my hotkey manager does that (Hoekey).
Not dissin' Daphne... (Haven't tried it myself yet). Just pointing out alternatives
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Herny said 11:02AM on 4-27-2008
BUT, Daphne is Open Source and Process Explorer isn't. This makes a big difference to me.
Barry Cleave said 4:56PM on 4-25-2008
I think Daphne is a really useful addition to your Portable Freeware Toolbox, I use it all the time.
You will find a nice detailed review of Daphne plus comments from the developer and a follow up on the latest review here:
http://proreviewer.com/2008/02/13/daphne-modify-control-kill-processes-with-your-mouse/
Barry Cleave
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Barry Cleave said 5:03PM on 4-25-2008
I think Daphne is a really useful addition to your Portable Freeware Toolbox, I use it all the time.
You will find a nice detailed review of Daphne plus comments from the developer and a follow up on the latest review here:
http://proreviewer.com/2008/02/13/daphne-modify-control-kill-processes-with-your-mouse/
Barry Cleave
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Crazylink said 10:14PM on 4-25-2008
I've been using Daphne for a while now but I never realized this feature.
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hazard said 8:37AM on 4-26-2008
Looks interesting .. good post.
FYI .. check out the context sensitive menu [right click] in the Task Manager's Applications Tab for operations such as "Switch To", "Bring to Front", "Minimize", "Maximize", "Go to Process" etc .. many of which also work on groups of programs by multi-selecting them in the list.
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mg said 5:27PM on 5-08-2008
Task Killer is faster and safer:
http://www.rsdsoft.com/task_killer/index.php4
I'm just missing the Drag'n'Kill option with outlining the windows. Maybe some can do a similar tool in AutoIt! oder AutHotkey.
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