Reanimator 2.0.7 review

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Reanimator is a utility for automatically restarting all applications and background-only processes killed by another process.

License: Shareware
OS: Mac OS X
File size: 329K
Developer: Factor Software
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Price: $8.00
Updated: 04 Aug 2006
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Reanimator is a utility for automatically restarting all applications and background-only processes killed by another process. It can also be used to quit all running processes and restart them later. A process is a program running on your Mac. When you launch an application, you start a new process. Desk accessories are also processes, while control panels are treated as extensions of the Finder process. There are also processes that don't show up when running: they are called background-only processes. Many shareware and freeware extensions run as background-only processes. Reanimator itself, works that way.

I'm used to run a number of applications and extensions in the background (D?cor, MyEyes, DragThing, Eudora and other occasional utilities) and I was tired of relaunching each one of them after running an installer, rebuilding the desktop using a dedicated utility or running a game instructed to quit all other processes, including the Finder.

Reanimator accomplishes this task in a single, quick operation.

Limitations:
Registration Reminder at Startup.

What's New:
Fixed a long standing bug in the registration code validation algorithm that caused the control panel to crash occasionally on 68k machines.
Removed any reference to FTP application in the control panel.

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