Discover why Process Explorer beats Windows Task Manager as a great alternative for task management, providing deeper insights and faster PC fixes.

In the previous posting, I covered the installation of Process Explorer and setting things up so that it runs automatically at startup time with its icon permanently displayed in the system tray ...

I've always used Windows Task Manager to troubleshoot my computer when it's slow. I’ll open it and stare at the CPU or memory bars, hoping to find the problem. However, at times, everything looked ...

XP's Event Viewer and Vista's Windows Event Logs can help diagnose system woes, but Sysinternals' free Process Explorer gives you the real inside scoop. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace ...

A mainstay of IT's working class, Microsoft's Process Explorer update is available, with even more PC troubleshooting tools I can’t imagine troubleshooting a Windows PC without Process Explorer. Users ...

Win8.1 rant, but I first hit this several years ago on either WinXP or Win95. I decided to organize my music directory and was plagued by "Can't rename/move this directory as it's in use by another ...

Hi,<BR><BR>I'm using Windows Server 2008 64-bit with 8GB of RAM.<BR>In the Task Manager I see full memory consumption (97%). When I sum-up all the numbers in the “Working Set” column, it doesn’t get ...

Unable to delete, move, or perform any action on a file because it is locked by a process? Find out which process is locking a file in Windows 11/10 using various methods discussed in this article.