Control Running Programs is a free Windows utility that (are you read for this?) controls your running programs. We love it when we find an application that lives up to its name. But what kind of control are we talking about?
CRP has two components. The first controls how many instances of a program are running. For example, if you never want more than two instances of Internet Explorer to run, CRP will automatically close a new window every time it's launched. In other words, you can sort of use CRP as a pop-up blocker. Of course, there are plenty of other applications that do a better job of blocking pop-ups, but we imagine there are a few non-browser applications for CRP as well.
The second component is an instance launcher. When this feature is enabled, CRP will launch any applications you specify. So if there's a raft of programs that you like to run regularly, but don't want to startup when Windows first boots, you can just add them to your CRP list. Then when you're ready for them, just launch CRP and click the start button to launch your programs.
For some reason you can only add programs to the instance controlling list if they're currently running, while you can add any program on your PC to the instance launcher.
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5-07-2008 @ 6:20PM
velocitystrike said...
I was hoping for something that allowed for two instances of a program that only allows one (like Windows Live Messenger)...this looks kinda neat though.
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5-07-2008 @ 8:04PM
phizm said...
@velocitystrike
Use the Mess.be MSN patch and It'll allow multiple MSN's to run (Polygamy).
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