Tracking Down Great Software For You!
Windows has a built-in process explorer that isn’t exactly targeted for power users. It only shows you the basic information that you need and nothing else. If you are want to know more about what’s going on in your computer then you should download the free Process Explorer by Sysinternals.
You can find out just about everything that you wanted to know. I can even find out the maximum amount of memory that a process has used since it started running. One of the other features that I find really useful is the process’ right-click shortcut that is labeled “Google”. When you click on that option it will open your browser and do a Google Search for the filename of the process. That helps tremendously for identifying any unknown process.
Process Explorer is completely free and best of all it doesn’t make you install it. Just download the file, extract it, and run it! The simplicity of using it makes it an excellent debugging tool when your trying to figure out what’s slowing down your computer.
Operating System Requirements: Windows 9x/Me, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Server 2003, 64-bit versions of Windows for x64 processors, and Windows Vista.
Download Process Explorer (all are 1.47MB):
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Sysinternals was bought some months ago (2-3) by Microsoft. This says a lot about the quality of many small & smart programs of Sysinternals. Let’s hope soon will be integrated in Windows.
Autoruns, by the same company, is far superior to the windows version, msconfig.
I’ve been using this freebie for months now. It’s good for finding out details on a questionable process; the only problem is it can be hard to know which columns do what. It took me forever to find out “working set size” meant what Win calls “mem usage”
Also, what does “PID” mean???
Maybe P(rocess) ID(entification)? An unique ID set for each process, by Windows or by this application?
Yep, Radu is correct. From my experience you hardly use the PID in Windows but I use it much more for programming in Linux.
thnx for the clarification, sounds like i wont be paying attention to that much, too bad it can’t be removed