Application Manager

Sure enough, Windows is built so you handle all of your computer activities in a comfortable manner. You’re also free to take matters into your own hand, and it can often be the case with programs running in the background and taking up a lot of resources. As such, Application Manager comes as a powerful tool to help you detect and terminate suspicious activities on your PC.

One of the main advantages here is portability, allowing you to carry it around on a thumb drive and use on other computers without having to go through a setup process. More than that, you don’t even have to worry that the health status of the computer you use it on gets affected, because it doesn’t make any changes to registry entries to ensure functionality.

At its core, the application aims to be of use to you where the Task Manager can’t. The main window shows up on launch, displaying all detected window instances, which can be either visible or invisible. Sadly, the list feels a little cluttered, mostly because of the rather limited space, with no possibility to have it resized.

To get a better view, you can choose to display either visible, or invisible windows. There’s also the possibility to show a specific process window, but most invisible instances don’t really have a window, so there’s little you can understand from the brought up form. This method is efficient, however, for revealing windows which don’t seem to respond and are minimized.

Moreover, you can easily gain access to a list of programs which run on startup, with the possibility to add your own entries. Here’s a set of options which add this program to the list of startup items, and whether or not to start minimized.

Bottom line is that it’s always good to know what’s running and not to be able to properly prevent malicious content from damaging your computer. Application Manager isn’t really prepared to tackle this issue, making it rather difficult to identify suspicious items, but can provide a neat list of processes which don’t need to be there.