Daphne v1.46
Description:
Daphne is a small (system tray) application for killing, controlling and debugging Windows' processes. It was born to kill a windows process and became almost a task manager replacement. You can kill a process by dragging the mouse over the windows, by right-clicking the process in the main process list, or by typing its name with the "Kill all by name" command. You can set a any window to be always on top, to be transparent, to be enable, et cetera.
Although Daphne was born just to kill windows process. You can think of Daphne as a task manager replacement. The main window displays a list of currently running process with detailed information about: CPU usage, Process ID, Process name, Full path (and arguments), Priority, Class (Process / Service), Current memory usage, Peek memory usage, Current swap usage, Peek swap usage and Number of threads
New in Daphne v1.46:
- Process owner column.
- Process I/O read/write columns.
- Logging facility for process events.
- Per process detailed I/O information.
- Major bug fixed: Get process environment information.
- Major bug fixed: CPU usage not showing if Daphne main window was hidden.
- Improved web update checking.
Thanks:
- To the "Translation team" - Giacomo Margarito, Arno Krumpholz, Marc Cueni, He Zhenwei, Forth Bunny, Vicent Adam, Michał Trzebiatowski, Jangir Ganeev, Renato Euclides da Silva, Asabukuro Dongorosu and Abdurrahman Aborazmeh.
- To Zach Hudock for making Daphne portable at PortableApps project
- To Barry Cleave for writing a review of Daphne named "Daphne - Modify, Control & Kill windows process with Your Mouse"
- To Adrián Deccico for writing another review named "Daphne, an awsome tool"
NOTE:
- Windows XP and Vista users may have to add "Debug programs" privilege to their accounts in order to see full process list.
Features:
- Enhanced (experimental) multidesktop feature: use up to four windows desktops using WindowsKey + F5 to F8.
- Installed software list for inspecting installed software available in tray icon menu. Installed software
- Check process hierarchy tree using the "Show process tree" at tray icon menu. Process tree
- Parent process name an PID at process' properties.
- Now you can make configuration portable using INI file instead of registry base configuration.
- Support for DRK's process data base information search and contribution.
- Hide application tool: drop the target over the application's window you want to hide. Later, you can restore the application from Daphne menu.
- Take care: process names may be eclipsed by malicious software.
- Find process window tool: identify the process which owns the targeted window.
- Traps: you can set up traps to be applied to any process being created.
- Detailed process list, including full path and arguments.
- Per process detail including: Windows tree, thread list, modules, enviroment variables.
- Using the windows tree you can: Show, hide, set always on top on or off, set focus, et cetera to any give window.
- Kill all by name: Kill all process using a given name.
- Kill menu: Customizable menu, each menu item has a process list to kill upon activation.
- Process list highlighting with colors for custom, system and high CPU-consumption processes.
- Control inspector window for revealing hidden passwords.
- Drag and drop tool for killing, setting alpha, enabling controls and putting windows always on top.
- "Hide Java VM from command line" option in advanced tab makes Daphne strip the path to the default Java VM in full path mode.
- Internationalization: Spanish, Italian, German, French, Chinese, Valencian, Polish, Russian, Portuguese and Japanese support.
Runs over:
- Windows XP
- Windows 2003
- Windows Vista
- Windows 7
We are looking for translators!
If you can and want to contribute, please contact the author or post a message to our translation forum.
Contribute to Daphne project by:
- Sending feedback, suggestions and bug reports using this suport forum.
- Translating Daphne to your own language:
- Download the .POT file
- Generate a .PO file in the new language (I've used this tool: http://www.poedit.net/)
- Send it back to drkbugs AT gmail DOT com
- Linking to this download page from your site or blog.
- Talking about Daphne to your friends.
- Making donations via PayPal
Downloads
Auto install distribution:
Daphne_setup - 1.4 MBytes - Daphne v1.46 - December 17, 2009
Download and execute Daphne_setup.
If you already have installed Daphne_setup and want to update language files:
LANGSetup - 205.8 kBytes - Daphne v1.46 - December 17, 2009
Download and execute LANGSetup.
Manual install distribution:
Get the ZIP package (1.3 MBytes)
Daphne is licensed under the GNU General Public License
Source code distribution:
Daphne-src.7z - 291.7 kBytes - Daphne v1.46 - December 13, 2009
