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Daphne http://www.softpedia.com/get/Programming/Debuggers-Decompilers-Dissasemblers/Daphne.shtml is pretty good at killing things

if you auto run too many programs  and have not tweaked you OS to not run uneeded services

and run too many security products then you can have problems. best to optimise your machine first.

Options to kill apps.

on your system       taskkill.exe /f /fi “status eq not responding”

processpriority  at http://sourceforge.net/projects/processpriority/

Process Assassin 1.4      at   http://softdyn.ucoz.com/index/0-8

By registry settings :-

Kill Apps “AutoEndTasks”

shut down apps automatically
Go to Start –> Run –> regedit
Go to the following key:  HKEY_CURRENT_USERControl PanelDesktop.
In the right hand pane, double-click “AutoEndTasks” and change the Value Data to 1 to enable automatic app kills.
To disable the feature, change the Value Data back to “0”.

Note: Keep in mind Windows might end up killing critical services
before they have time to recover themselves

Kill Apps “WaitToKillAppTimeout”
Go to Start –> Run –> regedit
Go to the following key: HKEY_CURRENT_USERControl PanelDesktop
In the right hand pane, find the key “WaitToKillAppTimeout”, double click it and set the time to wait for not responding applications to come back to normal. The time is in milliseconds. If you want to end the task immediately, give the value as 0

Kill Apps “WaitToKillServiceTimeout”

Change the time that Windows waits before killing a system service when shutting down, navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControl and double-click on “WaitToKillServiceTimeout” and enter a value. The default 20000 milliseconds.