Sorry for bringing it back up, but I just recently learned of how to replace Task Manager. All you have to do is:

• First, Open the Registry Editor
• Navigate to HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options
• Create a new key there called taskmgr.exe.
• In the newly created key, add a string labeled debugger.
• Edit the debugger string with the path (in quotes if necessary) to the program that you want to replace the Task Manager with.
• Finally, close the Registry Editor

BTW, I learned of the above from a MSDN blog post (http://blogs.msdn.com/shawnfa/archive/2004/10/06/238923.aspx)

Mine doesn't have as many icons as the ones already shown :)



Process Viewer (http://www.prcview.com)
SecurWall (http://www.securstar.com)
ClipMagic (http://www.clipmagic.com)
Volume Icon
Trillian (http://www.trillian.cc)
Ad Muncher (http://www.admuncher.com)
Ashampoo antiSpyWare (http://www.ashampoo.com)
Amembo (http://nora.rurula.com)
Locate (http://locate32.webhop.org)
KatMouse (http://ehiti.sdf-eu.org/katmouse/)
Spamihilator (http://www.spamihilator.com/)

EDIT: it seems to be a peer-to-peer as it claims using networked computers, or maybe it's server-peer based - that will speed you up but the details are very unclear on their site, which I find worrying.

-nontroppo (February 09, 2006, 09:45 PM)

Basically, it searches for servers that are hosting the same file and then uses them along with the original server (which speeds up the download).