Process Explorer is a freeware computer program for Microsoft Windows created by Sysinternals, which was acquired by Microsoft Corporation. Process Explorer is a system monitoring and examination utility, similar to a souped-up version of Task Manager, and often can be used as the first step in debugging software or system problems when in the hands of an experienced software engineer. Process Explorer provides many unique features that can be used to empower the user of the product to track down problems. For example, it provides a means to list or search for named resources that are held by a process or all processes. This can be used to track down what is holding a file open and preventing its use by another program. Or as another example, it can show the command lines used to start a program, allowing otherwise identical processes to be distinguished. Or like Task Manager, it can show a process that is maxing out the CPU, but unlike Task Manager it can show which thread (with the callstack) is using the CPU information that is not even available under a debugger. Process Explorer works on Windows 9x/Me, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista. It also works on 64-bit versions of Windows.
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One of the most reliable utility for me.
When I use this on Windows Vista with UAC, I always 'run as administrator', or else I can't view some process properties.
Replaced Windows Task Manager! :)
Using this software saves a lot of disk space, you don't have to install several other tools for this. :-)
Process Explorer has replaced Windows' default task manager (including the built-in Ctrl-Alt-Del hook) on all systems I administrate. Especially the kill/force restart menu items make this one outstanding.
(And it is free! Yay.)
One of the many excellent tools from formerly SysInternals (now Microsoft). Makes a very nice replacement for the standard Windows Task Manager.
This is great especially as a replacement for the regular windows process manager. Excellent App!!
Better as Task Manager
Put it in windows folder and you just win+r, and "procexp", and enter and you're on! ;) Only problem is that it lacks any network monitoring :(
This is pretty much the first piece of software I install on any Windows computer I use. Nothing comes close in features.
Brilliant little app that I've been using for years now. Nothing else really comes close to it in terms of process administration.
This is the official microsoft task manager
It's the best! I run in at minimized in the system tray at start-up, so it's right there all the time to track memory/cpu usage, and kill dead processes. And its resource usage footprint is very low.
I love PSExplorer - it is part of every install I do. The ability to look inside SVCHost processes and see whcih threads are misbehaving ----- LOVE IT !
Process Explorer is the best one, i always let it running in background in system tray bar, if any program takes too much CPU, i can be noticed by its icon,and actully PE itself doesn't consume much cpu resource.
I used to have this running in the background, but I came to a point where I simply didn't need it anymore and due to it's "too high" performance usage I stopped using it that much.
Regardless, it works great and does several things in one neat application.
i love this thing! Great for eliminating processes