{"id":14490,"date":"2018-02-15T15:13:42","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T20:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=14490"},"modified":"2018-02-15T15:13:42","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T20:13:42","slug":"process-explorer-manage-your-processes-and-easily-find-resource-hogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/process-explorer-manage-your-processes-and-easily-find-resource-hogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Process Explorer: Manage Your Processes and Easily Find Resource Hogs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Process Explorer: Manage Your Processes and Easily Find Resource Hogs<\/h1>\n
\u00a0Today, we\u2019re featuring a great freeware program from Microsoft Tech Net\u2019s Sysinterals.<\/div>\n<\/header>\n
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Sysinternals makes several great utilities for Windows and a couple of them we use all the time when we\u2019re doing computer repair. One of them is Autoruns, and another is the application we’re featuring today.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Both AutoRuns and Process Explorer are in our tool kits when we put on our\u00a0Cloudeight Direct Computer Care<\/a>\u00a0hats and start helping others with their computers.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s one example of how Process Explorer enabled TC to isolate and stop a process that was using 2.8 GB of ram on one of our Cloudeight Direct Computer Care customer\u2019s computers. The gentleman had 4 GB of RAM installed on a Windows 7 computer. He had trimmed his startups and maintained his computer well \u2013 yet it was still running very slowly. Digging in with Windows Explorer and looking through his processes revealed nothing unusual. TC used Process Explorer to organize and examine the processes from the most resource hungry to the least. Right there at the top was the culprit \u2013 Windows Media Player Network service was running amok and using 2.8 GB or almost 3\/4 of this computer\u2019s RAM.\u00a0 We stopped the service and prevented it from running automatically then rebooted his computer \u2013 and presto! His computer had 3.1 GB of free RAM and it ran like new. Without Process Explorer he would have never been able to find the wayward service.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what the Sysinternals guys have to say about Process Explorer<\/p>\n

Ever wondered which program has a particular file or directory open? Now you can find out. Process Explorer shows you information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded.<\/p>\n

The Process Explorer display consists of two sub-windows. The top window always shows a list of the currently active processes, including the names of their owning accounts, whereas the information displayed in the bottom window depends on the mode that Process Explorer is in: if it is in handle mode you’ll see the handles that the process selected in the top window has opened; if Process Explorer is in DLL mode you’ll see the DLLs and memory-mapped files that the process has loaded. Process Explorer also has a powerful search capability that will quickly show you which processes have particular handles opened or DLLs loaded.<\/p>\n

The unique capabilities of Process Explorer make it useful for tracking down DLL-version problems or handle leaks, and provide insight into the way Windows and applications work.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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You can kill processes, suspend or restart process, check a process with VirusTotal, and more just by right-clicking on a process.<\/p>\n

You can view a system summary (below) and see what’s going on with your System. I intentionally have too many programs running. Firefox was using almost a gigabyte of RAM total.<\/p>\n

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One Firefox process was using over 500 MB of RAM. See?<\/p>\n

\"Cloudeight<\/p>\n

You can learn about your computer, its processes, and you can locate memory hogs easily, once you familiarize yourself with the program.<\/p>\n

Process Explorer does not need to be installed.\u00a0Just download the zip file<\/strong>,<\/a> extract the files, and click on the application(exe). When you run the program, right-click the exe file and choose \u201cRun as administrator\u201d \u2013 it will save you time later. Process Explorer is a free 1.8 MB download \u2013 and it contains no tricky ware, no malware nothing but the good stuff \u2014 \u00a0Sysinternals plays no games with download links either.<\/p>\n

Process Explorer works with 32 and 64bit versions of Windows 7, Windows 8x and Windows 10 (all versions).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Process Explorer: Manage Your Processes and Easily Find Resource Hogs \u00a0Today, we\u2019re featuring a great freeware program from Microsoft Tech Net\u2019s Sysinterals. Sysinternals makes several great utilities for Windows and a couple of them we use all the time when we\u2019re doing computer repair. One of them is Autoruns, and another is the application we’re featuring today. Both\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,10],"tags":[2180,82,2181,2179,1684,7,1695],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14490"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14491,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14490\/revisions\/14491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}