Windows Task Manager

[Mike]

Hi all,

The windows task manager is useful but I find it falls
short in providing enough information.

I can ID about half the processes runing (about 38
running) but am not sure about the others, for example
CTHELPER.EXE, tmproxy and why do I have multiple identical
processes running such as svhost.exe (3 running) and
rundll32.exe (4 running).

Is there a way to Identifie these or a way to know what I
need running as the normal running processes take up about
40 megs of pf and about 200 megs of ram.

 

[davetest]

Hi all,

The windows task manager is useful but I find it falls
short in providing enough information.

I can ID about half the processes runing (about 38
running) but am not sure about the others, for example
CTHELPER.EXE, tmproxy and why do I have multiple identical
processes running such as svhost.exe (3 running) and
rundll32.exe (4 running).

Is there a way to Identifie these or a way to know what I
need running as the normal running processes take up about
40 megs of pf and about 200 megs of ram.

svchost.exe is the mechanism windows uses to run it's services.
To see which services are running open a CMD box and issue the
command Tasklist /svc. This only works on XPPRO.
It's not available on Home, but I understand you can download it
from the web:
http://www.computerhope.com/download/winxp.htm
Secondly, for *much* more info, download the process explorer
from www.sysinternals.com

Dave