Karen's Show Stopper

The Internet is filled with all sort of software solutions for doing various things on your computer and enhancing its capabilities. One of such applications is Karen's Show Stopper.

It's a really nice program, despite its unusual name. It helps you shutdown or reboot your computer and add all sort of functions and features.

The application doesn't take long to install and it doesn't require you to complete a complicated setup, before you can actually use it. It sports a really intuitive graphical interface, with lots of tools but a simplistic layout that displays all features at hand.

Karen's Show Stopper allows you to shutdown Windows in various ways (Power Off, Logoff, Suspend, Hibernate, etc.), from a Windows shortcut, a system tray icon, or from the program's main window.

Karen's Show Stopper allows you to pick from multiple shutdown types, like power off, restart or reboot, logoff current user, lock workstation and more. There's also the option to pick from hibernate and force shutdown, when you don't wait for other programs to end.

You can also select a group of tasks that could run before you shutdown your system. It allows you to create various tasks, which consist of programs that could be run when you shutdown your computer.

There's the option to run various tasks, provide arguments and pick the start in working directory. The window size can also be adjusted, you can pick from normal, minimized, maximized or completely hidden.

Once you've created tasks and groups, you can save the shortcuts inside the application. Shortcuts are minimized in the notification tray, simply right click on the application's icon and pick the shutdown type that you would like to use.

Karen's Show Stopper is a very nice software solution packed with all sort of nice features and tools that you could use in order to add tasks to your computer before you shut it down.