When the computer has power on and boot into the Windows or when users launch any program, some of the processes will be loaded and it can be check with the Task Manager with some useful information (CPU Time, Memory Usage and etc). Even users know which program or processes are running by checking with the task manager, but not all processes listed in task manager will be display with the meaningful name. Like when users launch the Trend Micro Anti-Virus, the processes that will be display as “ntrtscan.exe” in task manager. Is difficult for users to know which program or which handles DLLs processes loaded in task manager.
When users copy some file from folder to folder and sometime will encounter and error that some file cannot copy over due to the file used by another process. Even close all the program or process from task manager, still encounter the same error when copy the file. The actual process can be found and stop it by using the Process Explorer.
Process Explorer is a free system monitoring and examination utility and can be used as the first step in debugging software or system problems. Process Explorer is created by Sysinternals purposely use in Microsoft Windows. It not only can use to monitoring and check the processes, users may also use to find which processes is running and what file was used by another processes. On the above scenario, users can use Process Explorer to find on what processes is using the file that cause that the file cannot copy over. Therefore, users can just kill or stop the processes so that the file can copy over.
Here are some key features of “Process Explorer”:
- Support for full handle viewing on Win9x/Me (with the exception of Registry key handles)
- Process icons
- Service process highlighting
- Process tree display
- Configurable refresh rate
- Refresh highlighting: new entries in the process, handle and DLL views are green, and deleted ones red
- Listview tooltips
- DLL descriptions in the DLL view
- Highlights relocated DLLs
- Jump-to-entry in the find dialog
- Efficient refresh
- Lists all process owners, even on Terminal Server systems
- Moveable columns
- Column selection and a wide variety of configurable process, DLL and handle columns
- Asynchronous updates of all views
- Configurable refresh highlighting effects
- Save function saves process view and current bottom view (handle or DLL)
- Minimize-to-tray option
- Process suspend/resume
- Thread details including stacks
- Fractional CPU usage
- Job object information
- Right-justified numeric columns with numeric formatting
- Mutex properties shows owning thread if mutex is owned
- More information in process properties
- Start time and CPU time process columns
- Option to hide the lower pane
- Kill process tree
- More accurate Registry key names for profile unload debugging
- Extensive help file
- Service descriptions on services tab of service process properties dialog
Process Explorer works only on Windows 2000 SP4 or above. Download this free utilities and start monitor your Windows system.
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