![]() ![]() When you launch Process Explorer, you’ll see a tree view of processes they’re nominally organized by which process spawned which, but you can click on the column headers to change the sorting as you please. I typically use it as the replacement for Task Manager on any PC I run it’s just too handy not to have installed. It can replace Task Manager or run side by side with it, but either way it’s an absolute must-have for technically savvy users. Sysinternals’s Process Explorer“Task Manager on steroids” - that’s how someone described Process Explorer to me when Mark Russinovich first released it many years ago. All of them are free for personal use, some are open source, and each of them deserves a place in the toolbox of the savvy Windows user. If something goes wrong - a Blue Screen of Death, a slow-booting system, a recent program install that’s made everything slower than molasses going uphill in January - I turn to these tools to set things right. Over the years I’ve accumulated a slew of third-party troubleshooting apps that have proven their value again and again, so much so that they’re among the very first programs installed in any system I use. While each successive version of Windows has been that much more reliable and self-healing, that’s never been an argument to forgo a good collection of software tools. Somewhere along the line, something will go wrong. ![]()
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