slightly OT - Pausing/resuming applications?

[marco]

I know this is not a strictly VB related question (actually it could be, somehow, relating to the allocation of CPU time), but I thought that maybe some VB users could have an answer.

Do you know whether it is possible, for example in a WinXP system, to pause and resume an application (OpenOffice, Firefox, Word or any other) just as a VM can be paused and resumed with VBox?

I find that feature so useful (pausing a VM which is CPU consuming, doing something else and then resuming) that I think it would be extremely handy to have it available for any application.

[baf]

sysinternals pssuspend http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysi ... 97540.aspx

[Sasquatch]

Or SysInternals' Process Explorer: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysi ... 96653.aspx
It's a task manager replacement, quite useful.

[marco]

Thanks very much for your help.