There are many ways of terminating processes in any operating system. Windows also offers many different tools to kill or end the running programs or processes. The easiest way offered by Microsoft is through the Task Manager which can be invoked through the hotkey Ctrl+Shift+Esc. In the Task Manager, you can select any process and Read More …
In a previous article we talked about what process affinity is and how it can be manually changed in Windows. Basically, process affinity for a process sets the limit on number of processor cores that it can use. By changing the process affinity, you can tell Windows which cores of your CPU should be used Read More …
Until the late 90s, most of the computers came only with a single-core processor (also called uniprocessor) like Intel Pentium 3. But newer processors are all multi-core processors (also called multiprocessor). The obvious benefit of a multi-core processor is that all the processing can be divided and shared by different cores at the same time, Read More …
Security Process Explorer is a process manager for Windows that can give you some sort of indication whether a process is safe or not. It does not use any antivirus engine or virus definitions of any kind to detect the harmful process. Instead, it uses a guesstimate method to highlight the possible probability of a Read More …
Have you ever wondered why the hard disk of your PC is being used even when you are not doing anything related to file operations? Or why the CPU usage suddenly soars high without any visible reason for the computer to use the CPU that much? The answer to both these most commonly asked questions Read More …
When people talk of a good process manager for Windows, the Sysinternals tools come to mind. But Sysinternal tools are available separately – each tool handles something specific, for example, Process Manager handles processes, Autoruns handles startup items, TCP View handles network connection and so on. But if you want these all features in one places, then you may Read More …
If you have started using Windows 8, then you know that Windows 8 apps can be closed by dragging the upper edge of the app screen to the bottom edge of the screen. When you become familiar with this drag and drop action, the classic method of closing programs may look a little awkward to Read More …
There are many programs for Windows that can tell you which processes are currently being run on your Windows system. Windows itself comes with the Task Manager and then there is SysInternals’ Process Explorer which is more than enough to observe processes, threads and services being run on your PC. Although these programs can tell Read More …
Although I now use a relatively more powerful computer compared to what I had a decade ago, I still sometimes get very annoyed when some applications hog up a large portion of the system memory. Firefox is one of such Windows applications. For some reason the memory consumption in Firefox keeps going up with time Read More …
There are many applications in Windows that you do not want to be closed ever. For example, if you host your own website on your own computer then you do not want the web server daemon to be closed; if you work with accounting, then perhaps you want the Windows calculator to stay open all Read More …