Task Manager Extension
Shamelessly stolen from Scott Hanselman’s most excellent Ultimate Developer Tools List, Task Manager Extension is one of my favorite new addins.
Like Notepad, Task Manager is something I use on a daily basis: it’s an essential part of my toolkit. I took a look at some replacements, but I’m so used to Taskman at this point, I can’t retrain myself. And with Task Manager Extension, I don’t have to; it adds all the “missing” features you could possibly want:
- Shows application icons in Processes list
- Shows services in a different color
- Find files in use by any process (*shows all files in use)
- Find modules in use by any process (full text search)
- Shows process id in Applications tab
- Use different color for processes using lots of CPU time
- Query list of files, handles, modules, windows used by a given process
- Close a used file, or unlock an exclusively opened file for deletion
- Press the Delete key to kill a process or a service
Highly recommended; I put it in the startup group so it’s always loaded and can auto-attach to taskman.exe on demand. You’ll know it’s working when you see (extended) appended to the title of the window, and the Extension menu.