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slightly OT - Pausing/resuming applications?

Posted: 20. Aug 2009, 06:06
by 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.

Re: slightly OT - Pausing/resuming applications?

Posted: 20. Aug 2009, 09:14
by baf

Re: slightly OT - Pausing/resuming applications?

Posted: 20. Aug 2009, 11:52
by Sasquatch
Or SysInternals' Process Explorer: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysi ... 96653.aspx
It's a task manager replacement, quite useful.

Re: slightly OT - Pausing/resuming applications?

Posted: 21. Aug 2009, 07:12
by marco
Thanks very much for your help.