What Process

[Frank Bohan]

<quote> What Process is a small Windows application that lists all the
processes running on your computer. When you click on each process, it tells
you where that file resides on your PC and it creates a link to this website
which will tell you more about the process. You don't need to download the
application though. You can access Task Manager on your PC by pressing
Ctrl+Alt+Del and viewing your running processes. Then just enter the process
name on this website in the "jump to" box on the right hand side. </quote>

http://www.what-process.com/download.aspx

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Frank Bohan

¶ Computer programmers know where their next byte is coming from.

 

[Helen]

<quote> What Process is a small Windows application that lists all the
processes running on your computer. When you click on each process, it tells
you where that file resides on your PC and it creates a link to this website
which will tell you more about the process. You don't need to download the
application though. You can access Task Manager on your PC by pressing
Ctrl+Alt+Del and viewing your running processes. Then just enter the process
name on this website in the "jump to" box on the right hand side. </quote>

http://www.what-process.com/download.aspx

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Frank Bohan

¶ Computer programmers know where their next byte is coming from.

How does it differ from SysInfo? What, if anything, different does it
reveal than does
Start/Accessories/SystemTools/System Information? TIA

Helen

 

[Richard Steinfeld]

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How does it differ from SysInfo? What, if anything, different does it
reveal than does
Start/Accessories/SystemTools/System Information?

Helen,

I checked System Information on my Windows Me box (I'm guessing that
you're referring to the MS utility that comes with Windows). I did a
quick comparison wth Faber Toys and Process Explorer, both freeware.

The MS tool is mostly for hardware reporting. It shows running processes
in a table.

The two freeware programs I referenced display the processes and where
they came from; in other words, which programs that _you_ engaged or
auto-loaded and the dependent routines that _they_ loaded in turn. The
two free utilities permit the user to kill programs outright or just
their subsidiary processes, one by one. A process killer might be a
lifesaver if one is trying to head off a viral routine that's steadily
trying to fill up the entire hard disk, thus disabling the computer totally.

I haven't seen the routine submitted by Frank Bohan yet. It sounds
handy, since it is quite a time drain to, once having found a bunch of
strangely-named things running on my computer, search on Google for
those routines, one-by-one. For an associated web site to deliver an
instant description of those processes would be quite a useful service.
That's assuming that the whole undertaking isn't a clever scam to infest
our boxes with spyware, key-loggers, bank accounte stealers, etc. I
don't know.

Just yesterday, I checked with Process Explorer and found some processes
repeating over and over every 12 seconds or so. Checking on the web, I
discovered that they were the result of constant scanning being
performed by Sygate Firewall, which is on my system. This is aggressive
protection; the question is whether I need such a high degree of
vigilence or not, and what resources is this consuming.

I've experienced trashing of my email inbox, once in Outlook Express and
again in Thunderbird. I believe that these files were damaged by
automated scannning from my antivirus; of course there's no way to be
certain. Logging processes may provide the clue, but it's very time
consuming to make certain.

I'm too busy testing other freeware to go explore this one right now.
But it bears watching.

Richard