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Although it provides more information about currently running applications than Windows' Task Manager, Task Catcher offers fewer options to manage them, especially with its trial version. The cleanly designed interface is divided into tabs including Active Tasks, Watch List, and Black List. Impressively, the program lists company and version information, and when an entry is highlighted, also shows the full path and purpose of the application. Unlike the Task Manager, you can't assign a priority to tasks, although you can terminate them. Task Catcher doesn't let you set limits to CPU usage to control processes that would exceed those limits or rate the security threat a running application poses to your system, features found in other programs of this type. It does monitor applications you add to the Watch List or prevent those on the Black List from running, but these features are disabled in the demo. Though we applaud this app's simple approach, the limited set of features isn't compelling enough to make us want to pay for it.
Publisher's Description
From BillP Studios:
Task Catcher allows you to efficiently monitor programs running on your computer without slowing you down or hogging all your memory. Task Catcher will block unwanted programs from running and restart your favorite programs if they are disabled or crash. Our goal is to put you back in control of your computer and which programs are running. Includes quick access to WinPatrol knowledge base for WinPatrol PLUS members.
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"A great addition to WinPatrol"
Version: Task Catcher 1.4
Pros
This product makes up for WinPatrol's lack of self-defense feature, whitelisting and blacklisting is a great help, very small and light.
Cons
Now this one needs the self-defense.
Summary
This one is used best as a complement to WinPatrol in terms of security rather than an actual standalone program. It is light and compact, and offers a number of useful features as a file guard\monitor, whitelists, and blacklists.
It, too, lacks the ability to monitor itself, however.
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