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Date Posted: May 13, 2002

The first screen you'll see is a list of all the processes currently running on your PC. One feature I particularily liked was the inclusion of process descriptions of most of the Windows services. Many times, when I used Window's standard task manager, I stared blankly while trying to figure out what certain processes were.

Power users are probably familiar with the "Priority" of apps. Basically, the higher the priority, the more system resources will be allocated to it. Task manager already allows you to do this, so this isn't a Wintasks specific feature, but at least it was included.

No management program would be complete without some method of tracking statistics such as memory and CPU usage. What's useful about Wintasks' implementation is that the stats gets logged over a period of time, allowing you to view trends. Now, you can already do this with Performance Monitor, but it's a lot harder to figure out.

Past versions of LiveWare made it easy to disable the Creative taskbar, but since I got the Audigy, it's always given me fits. I could uninstall it, but I do occasionally make use of it. There isn't any easy way (other than mucking around in the registry) to disable it, but Wintasks makes it easy to customize your autostart programs.

You can also easily add programs to your list by pressing "+Add". I don't actually want to autostart Outlook Express, but you can add any executible file you choose tot he start up.

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