ProcesQuicklink identifies links beween processes and programs

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ProcesQuicklink identifies links beween processes and programs

by Brad Linder Jul 21st 2008

If your computer is running slowly or a program has stopped responding, you can fire up the Windows Task Manager, identify the runaway process, and kill it. That works fine when the process is clearly labeled with a name like firefox.exe or digsby.exe. But what do you do with rapimgr.exe or hpqste08.exe?

ProcessQuicklink is a free add-on for Windows Task manage that helps you figure out which program a process is associated with. Because the last thing you want to do is kill the wrong process and reboot your PC when all you wanted to do was stop your media player from blasting music at you.

Once ProcessQuicklink is installed, you'll notice little information icons next to each process int he Task Manager. Click on any icon and you'll be taken to a Uniblue Process Library web site where you can read more about the process in question. It'd be nice if the information was instantly available without opening a new web page, but we'll take what we can get. ProcessQuicklink does save you the few seconds you'd otherwise spend typing a process name into Google.

[via MakeUseOf]

Tags: process-library, processes, processquicklink, task-manager, uniblue, windows-task-manager

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

J5892 said 3:37PM on 7-21-2008

You used "you're" instead of "your".
Your writing license has been revoked.

Ddub said 10:28PM on 8-14-2008

You corrected someone else's grammer when it was completely unneeded like a smug know it all. You're freedom of speech should be revoked.

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