Is there a program or utility to monitor the running process and automatically kill specific processes? My work laptop has a whole bunch of useless crap that I cannot uninstall. Some of these processes keeps popping a specific intervals and consume tons of cpu and make my laptop useless. I always have to manually kill these processes which is annoying. I can't uninstall these otherwise they will automatically reinstall.
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A free and portable version can be downloaded here. however, you may consider the Pro version, to permanently block undesired processes:
Anvir Task Manager Pro is shareware, try before you buy. |
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You should try Sysinternals Process Explorer from Microsoft TechNet. |
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If you know Microsoft Developer Tools, you can use PSAPI (Process status API) http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms684884%28VS.85%29.aspx to write nifty utility to do the things you want. |
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you can make a vbscript, (or batch), then run as scheduled task,eg
save the above as terminate.vbs and put this as schedule task
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Try attaching a debugger to the process and break. It shouldn't pop up anymore (since it's still running), but it shouldn't bother you anymore either (from the break). Apparently one of my co-workers used to do this to avoid automatic reboots after installing updates. |
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This VB script worked perfectly for me - thanks! I configured a scheduled task each 30 min to kill a process that was respawning here. |
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