Understand process and services running on your computer better using Free Extended Task Manager

Windows has a pretty decent task manager, especially Windows Vista. However, there’s always a scope for a better, more enriched and informative task manager. If you do not know what is task manager and how you can use to trouble shoot and understand various tasks and services which are running on your computer I recommend you to check this link.

Today we are going to look at a third party application that extends the existing windows task manager to reveal more and use it as a tool to handle your system better. This task manager comes from the house of ExtenSoft. The task manager is called as Free Extended Task Manager.

Home Page

http://www.extensoft.com/?p=free_task_manager

Description

The Extended Task Manager provides additional Windows process management features and information about disk activity and network port usage. The new “Disk I/O” chart allows you to monitor which applications utilize most of your disk at the moment

Features

• Displays disk input/output activity with information about related applications
• Finds all processes locking a specified file.
• Displays network port activity with IP addresses of external computers
• Includes “Summary” tab for quickly assessing the overall state of the Windows system
• Displays information about applications that utilized most of the CPU or memory at any time presented on the charts
• Displays all files locked by a select process.
• Allows freezing individual Windows processes
• Offer various visual and functional improvements over the standard Windows Task Manager