Sometimes your PC seems to be running slowly and you want to see why. You press Alt-Ctrl-Del, choose the Task Manager and look at the Processes tab there. Does that help? The answers to that question are “maybe” and “a little”.
Task Manager only shows you the process name, user name associated with the process, % of the CPU being used by the process and the memory being used by the process. If you don’t know the purpose of each process name displayed, you are still left in the dark. Process Explorer, freeware software available by download from CNet, can help a lot more.
The Process Explorer software tells you a lot more about the processes that are being run on your computer. Its most useful information comes from the addition of a description of what each process is doing. As well, it can show a process tree of what processes are reliant on others, provide you with vast amount of information about each process’ properties and allow you to “kill” a process.
Process Explorer has one main purpose and it does it well. It allows you to view complete and useful information about the processes running on your PC.
