https://github.com/aldaviva/killunwantedprocesses
🧨 Stop background tasks that get left behind after they are needed.
https://github.com/aldaviva/killunwantedprocesses
cleaner process-killer
Last synced: 12 months ago
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🧨 Stop background tasks that get left behind after they are needed.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/aldaviva/killunwantedprocesses
- Owner: Aldaviva
- License: apache-2.0
- Created: 2019-09-02T14:25:53.000Z (almost 7 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2025-05-13T18:36:49.000Z (about 1 year ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-07-07T09:53:47.632Z (12 months ago)
- Topics: cleaner, process-killer
- Language: C#
- Homepage:
- Size: 137 KB
- Stars: 7
- Watchers: 2
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: Readme.md
- License: LICENSE
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README
KillUnwantedProcesses
===
This is a program which finds specific running processes on your computer and kills them.
## Benefits
- Reduce memory usage
- Clean up after another program exits
- Easier to read process list
- Get rid of unwanted tray icons
- Prevent unwanted services from being reenabled after you install an update
## Features
- Stop or change the start mode of Windows services (automatic, manual, or disabled)
- Uninstall AppX packages
- Avoid killing a process if certain other processes are already running
- Determine whether or not a process is suspended
- When killing one process, reevaluate other processes to see if they should also be killed now too, even if they weren't before.
## Requirements
- [.NET Framework 4.8](https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/dotnet-framework)
## Installation
1. Download and extract [`KillUnwantedProcesses.zip`](https://github.com/Aldaviva/KillUnwantedProcesses/releases/latest/download/KillUnwantedProcesses.zip) from the [latest release](https://github.com/Aldaviva/KillUnwantedProcesses/releases/latest/).
1. Use Task Scheduler (`taskschd.msc`) to create a scheduled task that runs `KillUnwantedProcesses.exe` as often as you want.
- I run it every 10 minutes.
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*Some of these are only killed if certain conditions are met, others are killed whenever they're running or installed.*