New App: Daphne Portable 1.47 Released

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Submitted by John T. Haller on January 1, 2011 - 11:22pm

logoDaphne Portable 1.47 has been released. Daphne is a small (system tray) application for killing, controlling and debugging Windows' processes. It was born to kill a windows process and became almost a task manager replacement. Daphne requires admin rights to run. It's packaged in PortableApps.com Format so it can easily integrate with the PortableApps.com Suite. And it's open source and completely free.

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PortableApps.com Platform 2.0 Beta 5 users who already have this app installed, simply click 'Check for Updates' in your PA.c Menu to update to the new version.

Features

Screenshot You can kill a process by dragging the mouse over the windows, by right-clicking the process in the main process list, or by typing its name with the "Kill all by name" command. You can set a any window to be always on top, to be transparent, to be enable, et cetera. Although Daphne was born just to kill windows process. You can think of Daphne as a task manager replacement. The main window displays a list of currently running process with detailed information about: CPU usage, Process ID, Process name, Full path (and arguments), Priority, Class (Process / Service), Current memory usage, Peek memory usage, Current swap usage, Peek swap usage and Number of threads.

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PortableApps.com Installer / PortableApps.com Format

Daphne Portable is packaged in a PortableApps.com Installer so it will automatically detect an existing PortableApps.com installation when your drive is plugged in. It supports upgrades by installing right over an existing copy, preserving all settings. And it's in PortableApps.com Format, so it automatically works with the PortableApps.com Suite including the Menu and Backup Utility.

Download

Daphne Portable is available for immediate download from the Daphne Portable homepage. Get it today!

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John T. Haller's picture

I wanted to thank Zach Hudock for his original released package, though his code is no longer used. And Chris Morgan for his work on the current PortableApps.com Launcher 2.1 Beta, which this app makes use of including the new 'compile-force' option.

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John T. Haller's picture

Missed that as his updated version wasn't in the Apps Ready For Release or Development Test pages. It was a complete rewrite anyway since the old launcher (also used in prapper's) had issues on Win Vista/7 and didn't handle logging properly (as the current Daphne has a working directory bug around logging that will cause settings not to be saved). I even recreated the icon from scratch so we had a high-res version.

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Probably a cut 'n' paste from their web site, but we don't need to carry the error forward.

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OK DaphnePortable works good but the tray icon is not showing up at all, the only thing that shows up is a blank space in the system tray. Also when DaphnePortable is closed it gos to system tray and stay there.

And this is a nice edition to PAD-Kit. Smile

John T. Haller's picture

It's an issue with Daphne itself on XP.

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FWIW, I'm running Win XP Home SP3 and the tray icon shows up just fine. When DaphnePortable is closed it also goes to the system tray and stays there, but if you right click on it and select Exit it goes away immediately.

Task manager can kill processes and found on every windows installation. So why should I carry an application which is doing the same. This may be dump question, as I did not tried the application, just wondered.

John T. Haller's picture

Daphne is far more feature rich and allows you to do quite a few things Task Manager doesn't. You can kill or kill politely. Drag the target onto a window to find out what process it is. The best thing to do it just try it out and see if you like it. Since it's free and portable, there's no cost and no extra stuff left behind on your system.

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This is nice, but Process Explorer covers all these functionalities and does many more.
Yes, ti is not open source but is free and completely portable. And don't expect MS to come and say "Hey, why don't you portabalize this?" Smile