Control Processes on your PC

An advanced tool which provides an alternative to the Windows Task

Manager, with greater functionality and command capability for your system

Process Explorer from Sysinternals is an extension of the

Windows Task Manager. The program has two panes: the upper pane lists all the

current running processes and the lower pane displays the complete information

of any selected process. In DLL mode, all the DLLs loaded by the particular

process are displayed. You can see a report of what 32-bit DLLs have been loaded

on a 64-bit system. You can even check for the latest version of the DLL with

the integrated Google search. The Handle mode lets you view all the handles

opened by the process and their properties.

The tool gives detailed information for a process,

including its icon, command-line, full executable path, memory statistics, user

account and security attributes. The search capability of the program helps in

tracking down a process that has a particular DLL or Handle opened. Process

Explorer does not even need any administrative privileges to run, and works on

any version of Windows.

Upper pane shows the processes currently running, along with their structure, and the lower pane lists the handles or DLLs opened by the selected process You can check the properties of any of the processes, including how many CPU cycles it is consuming. This screen is per-process vis-a-vis the Win TaskManager It you're sure that a process is safe, you can mark it as verified. The rest will appear as 'Not verified' Keep a record of all the processes that were running at any point of time for later reference

Anubhav Verma