Automatic process killer

While it is true that processes tend to also shut down as soon as you close the program, sometimes they may hang and you can’t do anything else. Since the OS is frozen that also entails that you won’t be able to access Task Manager. Doing a hard restart can solve the issues, but not always so you may need to look into third-party tools to help you kill the culprit and prevent it from pooping up again.

Automatic process killer is a tiny tool designed to help you shut down any stubborn process that is giving you heartache. The program doesn’t feature an interface and rest silently in the System Tray where you can access it at any time.

The application is portable, so simply you can simply run it and specify the name of the problematic process. Before the program can do anything, you need to create a plain text file dubbed blacklist.txt that you store in the same location as the executable.

As you probably hinted, here is where you can add the names of the processes that should be kept shut down. The developer points out that the names included here are mandatory to be added separately in an individual line. Make sure to add the exact names of the processes, as the tool is case sensitive.

The utility doesn’t really have any options or settings, which is only natural given its role. It does, however, give you the possibility to launch it with Windows, which may be a good feature if you are trying to prevent a program from pooping up altogether.

In the eventuality that you are having a hard time with certain processes that keeps popping up regardless of how many times you are trying to shut it down, then perhaps you can consider giving Automatic Process Killer a try.