KillProcess 2.43 Beta

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August 31, 2008

The idea of KillProcess came up during development of another much larger and more complex application.
This application would spawn a lot of other processes, and also depended on other applications spawning their own processes to communicate with the main application. A general run of this nasty application would start up something like 7 different processes all over Windows, all depending on eachother. This was a real pain while still in development, since the main application would behave rather strangly and crash or hang alot (like 40 times a day).
This all ment that it would literally take forever to clean up the orphan processes all of the time (since they where GUI-less). This was why KillProcess was born.

KillProcess lets you create an list of processes that should be destroyed and then perform an “batch-type” run on the list, killing of all of the processes listed.

Version 2.42 2007-06-26
* It is now possible to remember the size of the main window
thanks to suggestion by Steve 2007-02-05
* Made some improvements to the COM interface in KillProcess.dll
+ added documentation for it in the application help.
* Fixed so that the application will not hang when trying to
show other hung applications
* Improved the show window function to be a little more clever.
* Improved so that it is possible to select for which user
the Autorun feature shall affect (Current or All users)
* Fixed bug in Replace Task Manager feature after bugreport from
Carey Barnett 2007-04-11
* Fixed the application layout of buttons and menuitems according to
Microsoft GUI Guidelines & Standards
* Improved the visibility of the “Resurrect Process” feature
after suggestion made by Mtr Alshammari 2007-05-22
This includes introducing a new button for the feature in the
main dialog and moving it in the application menus.
* Fixed so that application windows be resized too small.
* Upgraded to NSIS version 2.27
* Possible to multiselect processes in kill list editor
after suggestion made by Mluse 2007-06-08
* Increased size of kill list editor
* Changed so that the scanning feature will be more vicious and
scan more actively for all running processes, since the previous
functionallity confused a lot of users…