Task Catcher

There's not much to say about Task Catcher. It's a monitoring program that keeps an eye on your applications and restarts them if they crash due to malware or other reasons.

The 385 Kb package can be handled by any Internet connection. The installation process is something you will soon forget about because it goes really fast. So, no matter how slow your PC or Internet connection may be, this program will be no hard task to get and install.

Task Catcher's interface consists of one window with no more than a few tabs. Generally speaking, the program is like your standard Windows Task Manger but with some extra useful features. The first two tabs will display your running tasks, which you can stop by selecting the desired entry and hitting the "kill task" button on the lower part of the window. The second tab shows a list of your running Windows services.

The next two tabs are the ones you'll be interested in. First is the watch list. Here you can add programs that you want be monitored. In order to do this, you have to click the add button and browse for it manually. Every time you add a program, Task Catcher keeps an eye on it and, if the program is blocked or crashed, it tries to restart it. It's as simple as that. The next tab is a black list which is the exact opposite of the watch list. You can add a program in the same way and, if one of them starts running, Task Catcher will automatically kill it.