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Filed under: Games, Internet, Utilities, Windows, Productivity, Open Source

QuickKill, and app-killer's best friend

QuickKillAny app killers out there? Do you perform the three-finger salute--you know, Ctrl, Alt, Del--every day? Even if you aren't an app-killer by nature, this app will give you the chance to be a maniacal grim app-killer, laying waste to any processes that stand in your way. Dana Hanna (the "Software Jedi") keeps cranking out winners in his An App a Day project. He is proving his Ninja Jedi skills by cranking out QuickKill, an app that will allow you to arbitrarily kill any unneeded tasks on your PC. Think of it as HijackThis for the real-time here-and-now, instead of on start-up. It is getting a lot of positive comments right now, so go check it out!

Filed under: Business, Internet, Security, Utilities, Windows, Microsoft, Freeware

Hijack This jacks up browser hijackers

Hijack This
You may have heard of Hijack This circulating the net, and no it isn't the song where Madonna is screaming expletives at listeners for "illegally" downloading her latest single. Hijack This is a browser-hijacker-killing app that is Windows MSCONFIG on steroids, with lots of espresso and a case of Mountain Dew. Hijack This will x-nay any listing in the group of registry keys that run when your computer starts, with a special emphasis on the browser Hijacking apps that hide there. This registry key section, "RunOnce" is also what feeds the MSCONFIG app (part of Windows XP) but Hijack This digs a bit deeper, and gives a lot more info than MSCONFIG does, not to mention searched in other areas that MSCONFIG does not cover. Hijack This will promptly handle anything you can't and won't find in MSCONFIG. IT techies and system admins use this, and for good reasons. Beware though, Hijack This will trash anything you tell it to, but it cares not for things you actually need to start your PC, so be careful. I wouldn't leave this program lying around where the newbies lurk, it could be dangerous. That's my kind of software.

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The World's Hardest Game 2.0 - Time Waster

So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do. Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game. The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...

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