SysInternal's Process Explorer

[MICHAEL]

http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/ProcessExplorer.html

Ever wondered which program has a particular file or directory open? Now you can find out.
Process Explorer shows you information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or
loaded.
The Process Explorer display consists of two sub-windows. The top window always shows a list of
the currently active processes, including the names of their owning accounts, whereas the
information displayed in the bottom window depends on the mode that Process Explorer is in: if
it is in handle mode you’ll see the handles that the process selected in the top window has
opened; if Process Explorer is in DLL mode you’ll see the DLLs and memory-mapped files that the
process has loaded. Process Explorer also has a powerful search capability that will quickly
show you which processes have particular handles opened or DLLs loaded.

The unique capabilities of Process Explorer make it useful for tracking down DLL-version
problems or handle leaks, and provide insight into the way Windows and applications work.

Process Explorer works on Windows 9x/Me, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Server 2003,
and 64-bit versions of Windows for x64 processors, and Windows Vista.


--
Michael
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"The trouble ain't that there is too many fools,
but that the lightning ain't distributed right."
- Mark Twain

 

[Andyistic]

Is this something you need to pay for, or was that fact conveniently left
out of your post?

-- Andy

 

[Jane C]

It's free

 

[MICHAEL]

Sysinternals Process Explorer has been around a long time-
it has always been free.

They also have other freebies, like- Autoruns. Very helpful
programs.

-Michael

 

[Chad Harris]

Great people; they keynote a lot of MSFT large meetings and they also do a
blog. I recommend Autoruns as a way of nailing what runs in the background
and where it is. It does much of what msconfig and/or Task Man should be
doing but doesn't. Their book is great for people who like under the hood
Windoz, and the blog has some excellent info.

Autoruns (wqrks fine in Vista)
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Autoruns.html

Mark Russonovitch's Sysinternals Blog
http://www.sysinternals.com/Blog/

CH

 

[MICHAEL]

I agree with you 100%.


-Michael

Great people; they keynote a lot of MSFT large meetings and they also do a blog. I recommend
Autoruns as a way of nailing what runs in the background and where it is. It does much of
what msconfig and/or Task Man should be doing but doesn't. Their book is great for people
who like under the hood Windoz, and the blog has some excellent info.

Autoruns (wqrks fine in Vista)
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Autoruns.html

Mark Russonovitch's Sysinternals Blog
http://www.sysinternals.com/Blog/

CH