15.4 Getting a Better View of Processes on Your System with Process Explorer
Sometimes you need to get a good view of how processes are behaving on your system. Task Manager gives only rudimentary information and isn’t at all helpful if you’re trying to find out what resources (e.g., DLLs or handles) a process is using. Worse yet, Task Manager doesn’t help you find out which processes belong to which applications when you have multiple instances running.
Sysinternals, creator of a huge number of excellent freeware tools, offers Process Explorer as a great resource for developers in need of more information about processes on their systems.
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Tool | Process Explorer |
Version covered | 10.06 |
Home page | |
Power Tools page | |
Summary | Great tool for getting details on processes, the resources they use, and system performance |
License type | Freeware; can’t be redistributed without specific permission, can’t use for customer support (see web site for details) |
Online resources | Forum |
Related tools in this book | Filemon, TCPView, Regmon |
Getting Started
Three different downloads are available, supporting Win9x/ME, 32-bit versions of NT/XP/2000/Server 2003, and 64-bit versions of XP/Server 2003. Installing Process Explorer couldn’t be simpler: simply unpack the .zip file into a folder and run it.
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