System Utilities / Process Explorer

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Thread for System Utilities or Process Explorers

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http://www.faberbox.com/fabertoys.asp?action=info

Faber Toys is a system utility, mainly developed for power users who want to know what's going on in their Personal Computer. It may also be used by programmers as a tool for tracking their applications.


List of all running processes
List of all modules loaded by a process
For each process are displayed the command line, PID, memory, number of threads, priority, version, description, Parent process
For each module are displayed the date, size, ActiveX status, version, description

[degsy]

Process Explorer
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/procexp.shtml

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.


AutoRuns
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/autoruns.shtml

This utility, which has the most comprehensive knowledge of auto-starting locations of any startup monitor (A starting list of auto-run locations was obtained from David Solomon's "Windows Internals" seminar (http://www.solsem.com/)), shows you what programs are configured to run during system bootup or login, and shows you the entries in the order Windows processes them. These programs include ones in your startup folder, Run, RunOnce, and other Registry keys. You can configure Autoruns to show other locations, including Explorer shell extensions, toolbars, browser helper objects, Winlogon notifications, auto-start services, and much more. Autoruns goes way beyond the MSConfig utility bundled with Windows Me and XP.

Autoruns' "Hide Signed Microsoft Entries " option helps you to zoom in on third-party auto-starting images that have been added to your system and it has support for looking at the auto-starting images configured for other accounts configured on a system. Also included in the download package is a command-line equivalent that can output in CSV format, Autorunsc.

You'll probably be surprised at how many executables are launched automatically!

Autoruns works on all versions of Windows.

[degsy]

http://www.joejoesoft.com/sr.php

StartRight will manage the execution of programs that are automatically started by the operating system at logon time. Instead of executing many programs at once (causing your OS to spit and sputter and attack your hard drive), StartRight will give the OS time to execute the program before running the next program. The OS should become much more responsive almost imediately after logon.

Those of you that have a dozen system tray programs (and you know who you are), might want to give this a try.


Features:
- program executing ordering
- custom delays
- Auto-Tune delays based on CPU usage (optional)
- new item notification (optional)
- automatically disable all new programs (optional)
- pause or stop program execution (optional)

[eikelein]

Recently I came across a quite unique tool, IMHO at least.
It's called "The Ultimate Troubleshooter". It has helped me greatly in troubleshooting various problems. You can read about it here (http://www.answersthatwork.com/TUT_pages/TUT_information.htm). The link as text: http://www.answersthatwork.com/TUT_pages/TUT_information.htm

The paid version gives a wealth of info on many, many dubious processes, Startup entries and so on. It took me only a few looks at this tool to happily pay for the full version; I haven't regretted it a split second.

BTW: I am in no way associated with the author(s) and so on...

[degsy]

http://www3.sympatico.ca/gtopala/about_siw.htm

The Freeware SIW is a Read-Only / Display-Only System Information Program


Note! It is a self executable. No Install required.