Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Process Explorer : Windows Task Manager Alternative

Windows Task Manager is an application included in a Windows family of operating systems. It provide details about running applications, processes, performance, network connected and users. It also shows you the memory currently used by the system.

For those who are bored using Windows Task Manager, there are many alternative applications that can be used but one of my favorite is the Process Explorer . The best package for this is that it is free. It is currently on version 11.33.

Here's the detail:

Process Explorer shows you information of loaded handles and DLL's processes. In short, it is a system monitoring and checking utility. There are many things that can be done using this utility. It is up for you to try and to discover. It was developed by Sysinternals which was acquired by Microsoft Corporation.

Features :

Hierarchical process view
Live CPU activity graph
Ability to stop applications and processes
Etc.

Download here

IMGBURN : Nero Burning Tool Alternative:

Nero is a very useful all-around tool. It allows you to simply create, rip, burn, copy, share, back-up and play media or audio files. It is an integrated digital media and home entertainment software suite. But the most basic feature everyone mostly used is the BURNING tool. It is one of the most frequently used function in this software. Even if you just need the burning tool, you have to purchase it as a whole at a cost of $70, a very expensive thing for the majority of the users.
Anything free is really wonderful. Not all good applications are at a COST. There are free applications for you to search. One of my favorite free burning tool application is the IMGBURN. I'm using it for a long time now.
ImgBurn is a lightweight CD / DVD / HD DVD / Blu-ray burning application that everyone should have in their toolkit. It has several 'Modes', each one for performing a different task: READ, BUILD, WRITE, VERIFY, and DISCOVERY.
ImgBurn supports a wide range of image file formats - including BIN, CUE, DI, DVD, GI, IMG, ISO, MDS, NRG and PDI. It can burn Audio CD's from any file type supported via DirectShow / ACM - including AAC, APE, FLAC, M4A, MP3, MP4, MPC, OGG, PCM, WAV, WMA and WV.You can use it to build DVD Video discs (from a VIDEO_TS folder), HD DVD Video discs (from a HVDVD_TS folder) and Blu-ray Video discs (from a BDAV / BDMV folder) with ease.

Just download it and enjoy. It's completely FREE!!!

Imgburn 2.5.0.0