Taskill

Situations where certain games or applications freeze up, and even the Task Manager cannot be accessed to end them are not very common, yet they exist. Even a setup with multiple monitors cannot successfully display the Task Manager, despite it running, forcing you to restart your computer.

TaskKill is a compact and straightforward tool that offers you a way to kill or refresh unresponsive processes, so you won't have to force-restart your machine each time that happens.

First things first, Taskill is portable, so you don't have to bother installing it. Just run it when it's needed and end any task.

On top of that, a portable tool is great for helping others or covering a wide range of machines. Just hop it on a USB drive and carry it around whenever the need arises.

Simplicity in dealing with exhaustive or complicated tasks is always preferred. Taskill follows this recipe and provides you with a clean UI. Upon running it, all active processes will be listed down in a small, black panel.

Click on unresponsive tasks to select them and use one of the available commands, Kill or Refresh. Unlike other tools, these commands are located on the toolbar, so there are no hidden tabs or context menus.

As an extra feature, Taskill seems to be able to work from the Command-Line interface or from within a  batch file. If you are familiar with these processes and prefer them, there's nothing stopping you from experimenting.

Taskill is a comprehensive tool that's been around for almost two decades, yet it can always be used as a backup for the Task Manager, as this is known to hiccup when certain applications freeze. Moreover, the UI and overall operation are way simpler than the TM, but because this is a very old app, it should only have the backup tool status.