![]() Note: some will not let you kill them e.g. Kill Process – like the ‘End the process’ option in Task Manager, this attempts to close it.You can take the following actions by right clicking on a process and choosing from the following menu options: In this folder, double click on the Process Explorer (procexp.exe) application to run the program : Process Explorer Save the file to your computer as a zip (compressed) file then extract the zip file to create a Process Explorer folder. Click here to download it directly from Microsoft’s Sysinternals site. It is part of the Windows Sysinternals suite of free programs available from Microsoft. Process Explorer is a tiny standalone (portable) program that does not need to be installed. Task Manager would show these as separate unrelated processes whereas Process Explorer correctly shows plugin-container.exe as a sub-process of Firefox – you can see this in the example below. the Firefox.exe process has a sub-process called plugin-container.exe that handles plugins such as Flash/Java etc. It groups related sub-processes under a single entry, making it easy to see which relate to which program e.g.You can see this in the example screenshot below. Process Explorer separates processes from services in simple color coded order (by default, pink = services and purple = processes), making it easier to see which is which.However, Process Explorer is a standalone program which can be run even if Task Manager is disabled. Task Manager is built into Windows so is often disabled by viruses to stop you from running it.This is important because active viruses often will not let you kill them but they can be suspended – once suspended they are no longer active and can then be killed off completely. Task Manager only supports killing a process whereas Process Explorer also lets you suspend it, temporarily stopping it – you can then restart it or kill it.This can help identify suspicious programs which are often stored in temporary or hidden folders rather than the more usual ‘Program Files’ and ‘Windows’ folders. ![]() where the file is stored on your hard drive. Process Explorer also displays the path of each process – i.e.This is particularly helpful in spotting virus processes which often have strange (random) names and no company or description info. Task Manager only displays the names of files but Process Explorer also displays the full description and company name – making it easy to see what a process is for and which company created it.However, Task Manager is very limited – a much better alternative is Microsoft’s free Process Explorer which has several advantages over Task Manager: Task manager is an integrated utility in all versions of Windows – it can be used to see which processes (programs) are misbehaving/stuck and then kill (close) them. Windows Task Manager is very limited – a much better alternative is Microsoft’s free Process Explorer. ![]()
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