Imran Hussain over at i think different has been playing around with how Windows 7 handles crashed applications.  The primary change is that it instead of terminating the program and then restarting it, the OS identifies the crashed applications thread and then gives you the opportunity to only terminate that component.  It’s interesting that Microsoft has taken so much time to integrate this feature in to the operating system seeing as there are so many third-party taskmanagers that have done this for years.

One of the most popular process managers that has done this for years is “Process Explorer” by Sysinternals which was acquired in 1996.  Personally I was hoping that Microsoft would incorporate more features of the Sysinternals toolset into Windows 7.