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PR: BETA: Process Commander beta Shipping!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brad Wardell)
Sun Aug 11 10:28:20 1996
To: os2ann.DISCUSS@bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU
Date: 11 Aug 1996 14:09:40 GMT
From: wardell@ibm.net (Brad Wardell)
Reply-To: wardell@ibm.net
Reply-to: wardell@ibm.net
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August 7, 1996
The Process Commander for OS/2 Early Experience Program began shipping today.
Those who joined the EE program will begin getting their copies of the beta
later this week or early next week as Stardock pushes to fulfill all the EE
orders.
Process Commander is a full fledged process management tool for OS/2.
Among its features are the ability to manage processes as if they were files
in a file manager via Process Commander's powerful yet intuitive PM program.
Users can manipulate virtually anything about a running process/program via
Process Commander PM such as thread priority, view shared memory, etc.
Process Commander also comes with a host of command line tools that allow
administrators and power users to write scripts and manage their processes
from a command line. Such utilities include a true KILL -9 utility.
Process Commander, like Object Desktop, integrates itself into OS/2 so that
its features can be seamlessly reached. For example, users can go to a running
program's system menu and change its priority or do a fast terminate right
from the system menu (by-passing all the "Are you sure?" messages a program
might give). If a program you are running is using too much CPU power, simply
go to its system menu (the button on the top left of every OS/2 program) and
change its priority to what you want.
Process Commander also comes with a Shutdown folder that works just the
opposite of the Startup folder. Programs you want to run before shutting down
for the day (such as a virus scanner, backup utility, etc.) can be placed in
the Shutdown folder.
An enhanced keyboard driver is also included that allows users to do a proper
shutdown from the keyboard (As opposed to having to select it from a menu), do
a fast shutdown, lock the keyboard, and switch keys around on the keyboard (in
later betas, an interface will be developed to allow users to modify their
keyboards to their liking).
Last but not least, Process Commander comes with a full screen feature that
allows users to reliably escape out of system hangs. An Advisor has been
included that gives advice on the best method to escape from a hang so that
users do not accidentally make it impossible to hang (users who have used
products that attempt to recover from system hangs know that if you choose the
wrong method to kill a process there is little hope of recovering). The full
screen module also describes the processes in plain English and has difficulty
levels to make it accessible to both novice and power users.
Screen shots and other information are available on Stardock's web page.
Process Commander is expected to be generally available in early October.
Corporate customers can contact Stardock at 313-453-0328 to evaluation Process
Commander.
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