So I have been a System Admin and Web Master and Web Developer for well over 10years and I am always looking for a better way of doing things. Mostly it means modding whatever software or hardware to follow my rules.
Some of the greater issues especially when you are a windows system admin you run into heavy uses 
on servers and cleaning up orphaned processes and or memory leaks caused by buggy code.
I guess what I am getting at is I have been using a little tool that helps me automate those pesky orphaned processes for a while now(at least since windows 2000(I will save the love of windows 2000 for another blog entry))
This little utility once installed basically takes care of the orphaned processes and keeps your processor processing the critical app's it needs to deliver.
Have a look at:http://bednorz.uni2.net/anyland/threadmaster/threadmaster.htm
Download at:
http://bednorz.uni2.net/anyland/threadmaster/download.htm