Chomper (VB6)

Over the years I seem to have accrued lots of little programs on my machine which get very lonely cooped up on that nasty cold hard drive all day - they prefer to jump into my computer's memory as soon as it boots up and then stay there.  Admittedly the majority don't take up an awful lot of processor time or memory most of the time, but they can cause problems when I want to do something memory intensive like playing a game.

Chomper looks through "chomper.txt" (which must be in the same directory as the "chomper.exe") and attempts to shut down any program it finds there.  Its not particularly polite about doing so, taking the "yank the chair away" approach rather than the "please get down" approach, so you would for example not be advised to put word.exe on the list unless you really feel your fingers need the retyping.

Currently Chomper can't shut down any process started by the SYSTEM user, which is rather a pain (my Lexmark drivers and AVG both run under this, and the latter in particular is not the sort of thing you want sharing processor time with UT2004).  I'm looking into this - watch this space.