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A Guide to Using Process Explorer
By admin | January 31, 2008
Process Explorer is an excellent tool available from Microsoft for free. Using it you can see all of the processes running on your PC and what files they are using.
The installation is incredibly simple, just download the file and extract it. Then double click on Process Explorer. Tada it runs. You’ll see a screen that looks something like this:
From here you can trace which process has what file open. It’s as simple as it can be, jut click on Find at the top and type in the name of the file you want to searh for. Process explorer returns a list of every process that is involved with that file. Now if you click on one of the entries it will take you to the specific thread and you can kill that thread to free the file.
That’s the meat and potatoes of process explorer. There are many other things you can do with it, such as suspending a process, which leaves it alive but stops it from running, changing the priority that the system assigns to a process, and monitoring your systems resource usage more comprehensively than the regular task manager. Process Explorer is a very simple, but very powerful tool and is a fantastic resource for every kind of trouble shooting.
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Topics: Process explorer, anti-spyware, anti-virus, file in use, january, kill file, locked file, secure pc, task manager, troubleshoot |
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