Block Unwanted And Automatically Restart Closed Applications

by on Dec 13, 2009 | 4 comments

A cool little program which monitors and somewhat dictates your running processes is Task Catcher.

Task Catcher allows you to efficiently monitor programs running on your computer without slowing you down or hogging all your memory. Task Catcher will block unwanted programs from running and restart your favorite programs if they are disabled or crash.

You can read more about this free program (and see a screenshot) here. I can see this being used primarily to make sure key processes (such as your security programs) are always running. The blacklist function, while certainly nice, would be a big hassle to maintain unless you specifically knew the process names.

Overall, I think this is a nice utility. It is from the developer of WinPatrol which I have nothing but positive things to say about.

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  • Ron Driscoll

    Think you should have mentioned that you need to pay to activate Task Catcher.

    • Jason Faulkner

      You only have to activate it if you want the premium features.

  • David M

    What is the difference between this software and controlling which processes boot by checking or unchecking the boxes in msconfig/startup?

    • Jason Faulkner

      Task Catcher will prevent a process from starting at any point, not just during start up.

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