Jan 30, 2009
Tell those unruly programs to cut it out with Yawffer
Yawffer, a rather strangely named Windows app, can freeze programs in their place like an ice ray of death, letting you shut down other running applications without them crashing, you losing your work, and all that nastiness.
Yawffer, technically a system monitoring tool, actually provides its “killer feature” (no pun intended) in a rather obscure way. Right-clicking on the tray icon and choosing “Freeze a Process” will present you with a list. Just click on the process you want to kill and “Freeze” it.
I’ve been using Bokeh for some time on my Mac, and this should be a worthy Windows counterpart to that fantastic app. For a more automated solution, however, try checking out Process Lasso.
Yawffer [thanks to Life Rocks 2.0]