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Process explorer or windows task manager processes utility


Witch one's to use ? may be both


process explorer Well actually process explorer is a add on software that you can get for free and windows task manager processes is already included in your operating system.

Both will show you system idle process and active windows processes.

Process explorer will do it in a more understanding way, with more info about windows processes then windows task manager. To find out, download process explorer, a kind of enhance version of Windows Task Manager. It a great deal more.

Perhaps You've knocked out quickTime.exe, iTunesHelper.exe and a bunch of other unnecessary apps, but what about those more unclear named process?

process explorer
Process Explorer has a nice function - right click on the process then select "Google" to run a Google search on the process name, which will give you what is the files and what it is use for.


Now let look a windows task manager processes


Press CTRL+ALT+DELETE to access it.

and you will be present whit a screen like this on

windows task manager processe
It is very strait foreword but it do the job, went you know that you can type in Google the process name and find out what it is, then you can pretty much make a decision about it.

This is one of the step to clean and remove virus trojan and malware from your system.

But that does only Kill a process already active in your system, to be able to remove it completely you would need to use a startup manager find in www.tune-up.comtuneup utilities 2009 or msconfig.





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