Daphne is a small (system tray) application for killing and debugging processes.
Daphne is a task management program which provides you with advanced options to control running processes. Unlike Windows Task Manager, Daphne provides many advanced features and is not designed for novice users.
The interface of Daphne is what you would expect for such a program. It provides a list of running processes and many options to control them. Right clicking on a process provides a much longer list of functions than Windows Task Manager does; options include Kill, Kill Politely, Kill at..., Kill politely at..., Set Focus, Set On Top and of course priority management, among others.
One other feature worth mentioning is the "Look up in DRK" which is nothing more than a Google-powered search engine which looks for the process name on Google's web search. This feature can be useful when trying to identify malware or other unwanted processes.
The settings controls of Daphne can have Daphne start automatically when Windows does, includes proxy settings, visual appearance customization and log process start and end times.
Daphne is a good program to have if you wish to delve deeper into the processes of a Windows PC and you know enough to use it but novice Windows users and non-tech people should probably not tinker too much. And oh yes, Daphne resides in the system tray normally.
Features of Daphne
- Check process hierarchy tree using the "Show process tree" at tray icon menu.
- Detailed process list, including full path and arguments.
- Enhanced (experimental) multidesktop feature: use up to four windows desktops.
- Find process window tool: identify the process which owns the targeted window.
- Hide application tool: drop the target over the application's window you want to hide. Later, you can restore the application from Daphne menu.
- Installed software list for inspecting installed software available in tray icon menu. Installed software.
- Kill all by name: Kill all process using a given name.
- Kill menu: Customizable menu, each menu item has a process list to kill upon activation.
- Now you can make configuration portable using INI file instead of registry base configuration.
- Parent process name an PID at process' properties.
- Per process detail including: Windows tree, thread list, modules, environment variables.
- Support for DRK's process data base information search and contribution.
- Take care: process names may be eclipsed by malicious software.
- Traps: you can set up traps to be applied to any process being created.
- Using the windows tree you can: Show, hide, set always on top on or off, set focus, etc. to any give window.
Compatibility and License
Daphne has been released under the open source GPL license on Windows from process management. The license provides the options to freely download, install, run and share this program without any restrictions. The source code for Daphne should be freely available and modifications are certainly permitted as well as the option to inspect the software.
What version of Windows can Daphne run on?
Daphne can be used on a computer running Windows 11 or Windows 10. It comes in both 32-bit and 64-bit downloads.
Filed under:
- Daphne Download
- Free Process Management
- Open source and GPL software
- Process Killation Software
