Eliminate Background Processes

MonPwr by Caffinc is a simple application that lets you turn off your Laptop/PC screen with just a click of a button, or schedule your computer to hibernate/restart/shutdown at a required time - without affecting background processes. Save power and extend your screen life. MonPwr keeps the...

This is a simple, down-and-dirty, recoll plugin fro krunner for those of us still resisting the use of Nepomuk because of its resource usage. Recoll's indexing runs nicely, niced to 19, unnoticed, in the background. Hopefully, someday soon, all of KDE's background processes will do the same!

Action1 Running Process Explorer is a free reporting tool for your Windows-based workstations and servers that remotely connecting to all of your computers (up to 100 systems are free to use). Action1 discovers your entire network of Windows systems and allows you to quickly see which processes...


Platforms: Windows, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Server

Security Process Explorer is an enhanced task manager, that provides advanced information about programs and processes running on the computer. It displays all the standard information, including file name, directory path, description, CPU usage etc. as well as a unique security risk rating. This...


Platforms: Windows

Bootchart is a software for performance analysis and visualization of the GNU/Linux boot process. Resource utilization and process information are collected during the boot process and can later be displayed in a PNG, SVG or EPS-encoded chart. The boot process is modified to start the boot...


Platforms: *nix

Quit Anything is simple application that can be used to quit processes. It lets you quit multiple processes all at once without having to switch to each one, and also lets you quit background processes (a.k.a., 'Faceless Background Apps' or 'Daemons').Please note that there are many system...


Platforms: Mac

PrioSet is a simple program launcher that lets you set the system level priority of any application. PrioSet can relieve your processor by lowering the share of resources that goes into background processes. Just set their priority to 'Idle' and they won't bother you anymore. You can also make...


Platforms: Windows

TinkerTool is an application that gives you access to additional preference settings Apple has built into Mac OS X. This allows to activate hidden features in the operating system and in some of the applications delivered with the system.The tool makes sure that preference changes can only affect...


Platforms: Mac

iQuip displays a new amusing quotation in the Login Window every time you start up your Mac. With an easy-to-use preference pane, you can select from a variety of categories containing thousands of quotations. You can also enter your own quotations to be displayed, or use any of the hundreds of...


Platforms: Mac

Designed to help optimize your PC for smoother, more responsive game play in the latest PC games with the touch of a button, Game Booster helps achieve the performance edge previously only available to highly technical enthusiasts. It works by updating hardware drivers, downloading...


Platforms: Windows

JetBoost At a glance: JetBoost releases more system resources by closing unnecessary background processes and services, thus tweaking your system to its top performance. It scans the running system processes/services and groups them into four major categories, and provides three modes for...


Platforms: Windows

Toolwiz Care Free is a freeware tool set designed to speed up slow PCs. With multi-functional optimization suite, this software provides a collection of tools that includes System Checkup,System Cleanup,System Speedup,and 40+ powerful tools to enhance PC performance, security, and to optimize the...


Platforms: Windows

Some people use "Magic Trees", these litte air freshener trees for their cars, to get that "new car smell" back. But air freshener doesn't help, to get that "new computer feeling" back. As time goes by you may have installed a lot of applications. And lots of them install background processes and...


Platforms: Windows

Free Task manager with built-in process library. Do you know what process names like svchost, winlogon, taskmgr, rundll32, jusched or ctfmon mean? This software and http://www.ppedia.com help you with the removal of spyware, adware or keyloggers for free. The library helps you to distinguish...


Platforms: Windows

The EATRMI project is an effort to provide tools enabling the management of an RMI activation system and registry within Apache Jakarta Ant. The project also addresses the ability to spawn background processes and effectively manage them within Ant.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

Amigabit PowerBooster Free offers a complete solution to speed up, clean up, fix and power up your Windows computer. With over 25 useful PC utilities included, it has never been easier to speed up your slow computer safely and quickly! It also allows users to customize scan times by day and time...


Platforms: Windows

Desktop Background Magician is the most complete, easy-to-use software for producing wallpaper slide shows or playing videos as desktop background.And with its powerful destop background template design features and desktop customisation options,you can design your own rich and colorful desktop....


Platforms: Windows

Mihov Background Tester is a graphical program that can help web developers and home users. It is designed to help you preview background images. You can select any image file in jpg, gif, or bmp graphic format and the program will show the image tiled. You will be able to tell if that image...


Platforms: Windows

background-cover is an Amarok script that displays the album cover, track information. Optionally the embedded track image on the kde desktop background, and changes the background at each track change.. AmarokScreenSaver KDE-Apps.org Community Portal for KDE Applications Software Office...


Platforms: *nix

Libtubo Interprocess Communication is a small and simple library that can run processes in the background and communicate via the stdout, stderr, and stdin file descriptors. The functionality of libtubo is similar to the glib function g_spawn_async_with_pipes(), except that all pipe setup and...


Platforms: *nix