newbie question about open apps

[bulldogmo]

at any given time I have 6 Docs open, 2 programs downloading, as well as multiple explorer windows open, not to mention a host of other programs depending on the project of the day. And this is only at home, no mentioning of the mess I have going at work.

Yes, the ADD is strong in this one.

It there possibly a skin or a plugin that I can be taught to use that will show in a window the icons I have open, like list the individual Doc names and other programs. Right now, as I'm using Rainmeter I have to alt+tab to cycle through my open programs and when I have a ton open, it is a pain.

Please, if any one has a clue or an idea, let me know.

Thank you for indulging a newbie who is learning as fast as he can.

bulldogmo

[eclectic-tech]

Nothing native in Rainmeter for that function...

But, I use tasklist.exe by John Truman Carter (originally in Japanese; translated by fragrant.monkey)

TaskList.zip

It will display a list of running tasks at the current mouse position:

tasklist.png

This is the best solution I have found... other members might know of other options.

I do not think you will find any skins based on this (you'll have to create one) since it uses a 3rd party executable, and that usually will trigger virus warnings if included in a rmskin package.

Simple skin.ini

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[TaskListLaunch]
Meter=String
Text=Running Tasks
SolidColor=0,0,0,1
LeftMouseUpAction=["{PathToExecutable}\Tasklist.exe"]

[bulldogmo]

Thanks will try it........ it will help, fingers crossed....

[bulldogmo]

Update....... It works like a charm. Tweaked the coding a bit to fit my skin, and it does what I needed it to do.

Thanks for all the help.

The people on this board have been great and very patient with this newbie.

[eclectic-tech]

Glad I was able to help.

[DollarD]

If you want to expand on that a bit, this plugin gives CPU, Memory and IO usage per process as well:

http://rainmeter.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=20512

I've extended it with a lua script to that beautifies (just renames into customisable human-readable format) the process name itself for my skins:

http://rainmeter.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=20512&start=50

It's a bit more complex, but yeah. Sometimes you just can't stop tweaking...