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Editors’ Review

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Active Process Killer instantly terminates frozen applications using simple hotkeys, bypassing the need to open Task Manager. It's ideal for unresponsive fullscreen programs.
  • Pros

    • Terminates active processes via hotkey.
    • Terminates all non-safe processes via hotkey.
    • Useful for frozen fullscreen applications.
    • Provides instant process termination.
    • Runs unobtrusively in the system tray.
  • Cons

    • Relies on user-defined safe process list.
    • Requires holding hotkey for mass termination.

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Full Specifications

GENERAL
Release
Latest update
Version
1.1
OPERATING SYSTEMS
Platform
Windows
Operating System
  • Windows 2003
  • Windows Vista
  • Windows 7
  • Windows XP
  • Windows 10
  • Windows Server
Additional Requirements
Microsoft .NET Framework 3..5
POPULARITY
Total Downloads
11,137
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Developer’s Description

Terminate the active process, or all but the ones marked safe, using a hotkey.
Active Process Killer is a program that runs in the tray. By using a hotkey (shift-pause), this program will terminate the active process by the same means of terminating it using the taskmanager, but without having to select the process. This can be useful for e.g. fullscreen applications that have frozen. Using another hotkey (shift-end) and holding it for a few seconds, you can terminate all applications that is not on the UTP (UnTerminatable Processes) list.Countless times over the years have games frozen with a black screen, not allowing people to use the taskmanager to terminate it. Thats what gave me the idea to create this app. And with it, most processes can be terminated instantly.

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