Review
Process Explorer is an advanced process management tool. It was created by sysinternals. Now, sysinternals is a part of Microsoft. It is like the task manager in windows, but with more features. It shows all the processes running on your system including its icon, command line (that the program is run on), full image path, the memory statistics (used memory, paged, etc), user account (under which the process is running), security attributes, and much more.
We can suspend and resume any process we like. The search feature can be used for finding the handle or DLL (that are being used by a process). It finds the functions (or the DLL containing it) in all the processes that are using it.
We can attach a debugger to a process to monitor it. The system information n page shows the graph of CPU and memory usage, only that it gives more info than the task manager.
Double clicking a process brings up advanced properties for it. It can be used to monitor the resources that it uses or change its settings, kill / restart the process, etc.
It could be used to track problems caused due to change in DLL versions, memory leaks, etc. The program itself can be run as an Administrator or a Limited user, even if you are an Administrator, for monitoring such scenarios.
The program is really good, with almost all the features anyone could integrate into a process / task manager. There is also an option by which we can replace our usual task manager by this program! |
