EndItAll

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There's a little program called EndItAll. I would like to put it on my
laptop. Are any of the regulars familiar with this program? I didn't
see it on priceless. It is a program that enables you to see and close
all running programs (including the hidden ones) on your computer so
that scandisk and/or defrag will run without interruption. Of course
this is applicable to Windows users and thus snide remarks aren't
necessary from others. Using this program was the only way I could get
defrag and scandisk to run uninterrupted. Does anyone have a link for
this that doesn't require registration? TIA

Helen
 
Hello, Helen!
You wrote on Sat, 15 Nov 2003 13:54:55 -0500:

H> There's a little program called EndItAll. I would like to put it on
H> my laptop. Are any of the regulars familiar with this program? I
H> didn't see it on priceless. It is a program that enables you to
H> see and close all running programs (including the hidden ones) on
H> your computer so that scandisk and/or defrag will run without
H> interruption. Of course this is applicable to Windows users and
H> thus snide remarks aren't necessary from others. Using this program
H> was the only way I could get defrag and scandisk to run
H> uninterrupted. Does anyone have a link for this that doesn't
H> require registration? TIA

Rareware section of The Mole Zone (url in signature).

Regards.
 
There's a little program called EndItAll. I would like to put it on my
laptop. Are any of the regulars familiar with this program? I didn't
see it on priceless. It is a program that enables you to see and close
all running programs (including the hidden ones) on your computer so
that scandisk and/or defrag will run without interruption. Of course
this is applicable to Windows users and thus snide remarks aren't
necessary from others. Using this program was the only way I could get
defrag and scandisk to run uninterrupted. Does anyone have a link for
this that doesn't require registration? TIA

Helen
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I believe that it is a PC Magazine utility.

Jack
 
There's a little program called EndItAll. I would like to put it on my
laptop. Are any of the regulars familiar with this program? I didn't
see it on priceless. It is a program that enables you to see and close
all running programs (including the hidden ones) on your computer so
that scandisk and/or defrag will run without interruption. Of course
this is applicable to Windows users and thus snide remarks aren't
necessary from others. Using this program was the only way I could get
defrag and scandisk to run uninterrupted. Does anyone have a link for
this that doesn't require registration? TIA

Helen
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I have used it regularly starting with Win98SE about 4 years
ago. Now use it on WinXP Pro & Home. Works well - no
problems. It will force shutdown of anything you set it
for. You can use it to selectively close apps to take the
machine right down to the bare essentials to operate if you
like.
 
Helen said:
There's a little program called EndItAll. I would like to put it on my
laptop. Are any of the regulars familiar with this program? I didn't
see it on priceless. It is a program that enables you to see and close
all running programs (including the hidden ones) on your computer so
that scandisk and/or defrag will run without interruption. Of course
this is applicable to Windows users and thus snide remarks aren't
necessary from others. Using this program was the only way I could get
defrag and scandisk to run uninterrupted. Does anyone have a link for
this that doesn't require registration? TIA

Helen
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Ctrl/Alt/Delete should work just as well, unless you have hidden programs
running, in which case defrag should not be the first thing you are worried
about.
 
Helen said:
There's a little program called EndItAll. I would like to put it on my
laptop. Are any of the regulars familiar with this program? I didn't
see it on priceless. It is a program that enables you to see and close
all running programs (including the hidden ones) on your computer so
that scandisk and/or defrag will run without interruption. Of course
this is applicable to Windows users and thus snide remarks aren't
necessary from others. Using this program was the only way I could get
defrag and scandisk to run uninterrupted. Does anyone have a link for
this that doesn't require registration? TIA

Helen
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If you want the original version (which is less agressive than EndItAll II)
you can find it here:

http://www.asktcl.com/Files/enditall.exe

Gary
 
Henry The Mole said...
Rareware section of The Mole Zone (url in signature).
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Thanks, Henry. I'd been looking for another one I just found on your
"rareware" list for some time now. I had it, lost it, couldn't find it
again...you know the story. Nice list ;-)
 
Helen said:
There's a little program called EndItAll. I would like to put it on my
laptop. Are any of the regulars familiar with this program? I didn't
see it on priceless. It is a program that enables you to see and close
all running programs (including the hidden ones) on your computer so
that scandisk and/or defrag will run without interruption. Of course
this is applicable to Windows users and thus snide remarks aren't
necessary from others. Using this program was the only way I could get
defrag and scandisk to run uninterrupted. Does anyone have a link for
this that doesn't require registration? TIA

Helen
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Great program. I use it when I am editing video (as my video editing
software does NOT like anything else running at the same time.) I have used
it with Win ME and also XP with no problems at all. Sorry I don't have a URL
but a Google search should find it.
Badger
 
Ctrl/Alt/Delete should work just as well, unless you have hidden
programs running, in which case defrag should not be the first thing
you are worried about.
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There are many legitimate processes that are not registered to appear in
task managers - not just malware trying to hide its presence.
Ctrl/Alt/Delete will not pick these up of course.
 
Helen said:
There's a little program called EndItAll. I would like to put it on
my laptop. Are any of the regulars familiar with this program? I
didn't see it on priceless. It is a program that enables you to see
and close all running programs (including the hidden ones) on your
computer so that scandisk and/or defrag will run without
interruption. Of course this is applicable to Windows users and thus
snide remarks aren't necessary from others. Using this program was
the only way I could get defrag and scandisk to run uninterrupted.
Does anyone have a link for this that doesn't require registration?
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Helen, it's horses for courses here of course, but I found EndItAll to
be a bit buggy/ flakey. I adopted using a process viewer called PrcView
(100K)http://www.xmlsp.com/pview/prcview.htm
to be a better alternative. You can even use it in commandline mode to
kill stuck processes that just refuse to roll over & die, as well as
writing batch files to kill off a known set of processes in one hit
(e.g. firewall, proxy, mail notifier... to free resources after
disconnecting from the net).

WRT the defrag interruption, all you need to leave running is Explorer
(contrary to popular belief, you *don't* need SysTray running - hardly
ever in fact).
 
Great program. I use it when I am editing video (as my video editing
software does NOT like anything else running at the same time.) I have used
it with Win ME and also XP with no problems at all. Sorry I don't have a URL
but a Google search should find it.
Badger
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I've seen all the responses but decided to mention my experience with
it. It works fine for me on my Win98SE box. I use it several times a
day, in fact. It's in my startup folder because I have several things
start up on reboot and through PUAC (a voice alarm/scheduler freeware
that alerts me with voice of certain things or will launch items at
schedled times). So after I've had a chance to see to everything
after startup, I use the opened EndItAll to close everything down but
my basic setup so that I can get on with the new session.

The _only_ trouble I've _ever_ had with it is that after a
wipe/reinstall. I don't always remember to set the display to the
right amount of colours and it defaults to only a few. No problem,
EndItAll reminds me because it won't work below a certain number of
colours anyway. But that's it for difficulties.

One of my basic stable of apps for 2 or 3 years now.

Yes, it doesn't register everything running, though. But for the
average use, similar to mine, it's perfect!

Good luck!
 
There's a little program called EndItAll. I would like to put it on my
laptop. Are any of the regulars familiar with this program? I didn't
see it on priceless.
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I believe it was removed from Priceless when it no longer qualified
as 'freeware'. The PCMag site now requires a paid subscription to DL.

"LICENSE INFORMATION:
PC Magazine Extra programs are copyrighted and cannot be distributed.
Use is subject to the terms and conditions of the license agreement
distributed with the programs."

There are sites who ignore restrictions, however if a 'warez' taint
doesn't bother you. Geodisk freeware is an alterative but here again
you get the faster WinMEdefrag.exe as part of the installation, which
is again questionable.

Kind of a moral dilemma.
It is a program that enables you to see and close
all running programs (including the hidden ones) on your computer so
that scandisk and/or defrag will run without interruption. Of course
this is applicable to Windows users and thus snide remarks aren't
necessary from others. Using this program was the only way I could get
defrag and scandisk to run uninterrupted. Does anyone have a link for
this that doesn't require registration? TIA

Helen
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BoB
For the duration of Swen, my address is inoperative.
 
I believe it was removed from Priceless when it no longer qualified
as 'freeware'. The PCMag site now requires a paid subscription to DL.
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Oh, well, I don't know about that. I never worry. As long as I can
get the zip or exe name, I hunt for things elsewhere.

I started a practice I never knew at the beginning would be good, I
just knew it was smart. I save the 8.3 name of zip/exe and add
complete name and version. That has come in handy dozens of times.
In this case, EndItAll I renamed to this aeons ago:

EndItAll v1.0 - enditall.zip

So just now did a search for "enditall.zip" and second hit found a
link:

http://www.ccs.org/Tips/Download/3Download.htm

It dl just fine right now. I virus scanned it and started install to
check and it's our EndItAll, alright.

I wouldn't remove it from the Pricelessware list just because we can't
find it on one site or is EndItAll strictly a PCMag app?

If someone else carries it, then that gets around the paid
subscription problem. But don't know how others feel. All my stuff I
put out freeware so I have no issues with freeware being found on
other sites.

Cheers!
 
BoB said:
I believe it was removed from Priceless when it no longer qualified
as 'freeware'. The PCMag site now requires a paid subscription to DL.

"LICENSE INFORMATION:
PC Magazine Extra programs are copyrighted and cannot be distributed.
Use is subject to the terms and conditions of the license agreement
distributed with the programs."

There are sites who ignore restrictions, however if a 'warez' taint
doesn't bother you. Geodisk freeware is an alterative but here again
you get the faster WinMEdefrag.exe as part of the installation, which
is again questionable.

Kind of a moral dilemma.
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There are two versions of EndItAll and I don't think PCMag even has the
original version available. When the original was first distributed,
assuming the freeware license *at that time* allowed users to freely
distribute copies, can they change that after the fact?

Gary
 
There are two versions of EndItAll and I don't think PCMag even
has the original version available. When the original was first
distributed, assuming the freeware license *at that time* allowed
users to freely distribute copies, can they change that after the
fact?
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No, they can't. If you have a copy that came with a licence to
distribute the first version, you can still distribute the first
version.
 
There are two versions of EndItAll and I don't think PCMag even has the
original version available. When the original was first distributed,
assuming the freeware license *at that time* allowed users to freely
distribute copies, can they change that after the fact?
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Well, no. What was put out as freeware remains freeware forever. The
developer may come out with a later version that is not, but that
doesn't affect the status of the freeware one.
 
There's a little program called EndItAll. I would like to put it on my
laptop. Are any of the regulars familiar with this program? I didn't
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It's a good program. You can install it and transfer it to FDD or CD and
transport it to your laptop. Google for it. It's all over the place.

Bob
 
No, they can't. If you have a copy that came with a licence to
distribute the first version, you can still distribute the first
version.
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EndItAll, Version 1.0
Copyright (c) 1999 Ziff-Davis, Inc.
First Published on the PC Magazine Extra Web site, August 1, 1999
http://www.zdnet.com/pcmextra/utils/current.htm
_______________________________________________________________

LICENSE INFORMATION:
PC Magazine Extra programs are copyrighted and cannot be distributed.
Use is subject to the terms and conditions of the license agreement
distributed with the programs.
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Seems pretty clear to me why Priceless should not be involved with
EndItAll, v1 or v2. What individuals do is totally up to them.

BoB
For the duration of Swen, my address is inoperative.
 
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