Bad Application is a tiny (9KB) program which "does nothing", the developer says - it only "emulates a bad application". Which may sound a little odd, but can be very useful if you're trying to test a PC monitoring tool.

If you have a program which claims that, say, it will alert you to a hung application, then normally you'd have to wait until something hangs before you can check that. With Bad Application, though, all you have to do is click "Hang process", it'll lock up immediately, and you can see what your monitoring tool does next.

Or maybe you've installed a tool which logs or tries to help with process crashes? Again, normally that's hard to test as you can't generally crash programs on demand. But Bad Application is different: click Crash Process and it'll fail immediately.

You can also change Bad Application's process priority with a click, handy if you'd like to check that a monitoring tool is reporting priorities correctly.

You're able to flash the application's title bar at a click.

And, for some reason, you're also able to terminate Explorer. It should simply restart, but this is the one option which may cause problems if the process is in the middle of doing something, so we'd recommend avoiding clicking "Terminate Explorer" unless you have good reason to do otherwise.