Is there any software that shuts down a program after a certain amount of idle time?

My mom always leaves AOL on the family PC and it causes it to lag because its left on for hours while shes out shopping and stuff. Is there a program I can get that shuts a program down after its not been used for a certain time limit?

 

You don't say which OS Cheater, so maybe have a read of this page, and a look at the second pay job, there doesn't appear to be much in legit. possibles outside of these maybees,


http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies-archive.cfm/386581.html

http://www.lifsoft.com/power/index.html

 

Not sure if this is what you are looking for.

hxxp://www.in-mediakg.com/software/ishutdown/ishutdown.shtml

 

It's already bundled with the OS. You know, go to the control panel and there's the power options thing.

 

Windows XP. I don't want the whole PC shut down just AOL.

 

I use Bill2's Process Manager (freeware) for stuff like that. Other process managers may offer similar functions. Here's a link to mostly free process management utilities: http://www.majorgeeks.com/downloads40.html

Bill2 is mainly for controlling process priorities and affinities, but you can also tell it perform various actions when a process starts, ends or has been idle or over-active for x minutes... It may be overkill for single core computers, but for dual or quad cores it's great.

Note: To benefit from the priority management aspects you probably need to run Bill2 in learning mode for a few days, and set up a bunch of rules.

 

Well, if something left at idle causes a computer to lag, then said program pretty like has a memory leak. So, the solution would be to update to a newer version if any, or find an alternative. No idea which application exactly are you talking about here but shutting down a leaking application after a period of inactivity is no solution at all.

 

http://dimio.altervista.org/eng/

I used to use dshutdown. See url above.
Dont know if it is compatible with windows 7. You have to try yourself.
Regards
Nick Franken

 

Thanks Frank that looks like a great program I'll check it out. Sorry I have not been on lately I have been kinda busy.