XP's Event Viewer and Vista's Windows Event Logs can help diagnose system woes, but Sysinternals' free Process Explorer gives you the real inside scoop. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace ...

In the previous posting, I covered the installation of Process Explorer and setting things up so that it runs automatically at startup time with its icon permanently displayed in the system tray ...

Windows is a popular OS for a reason — the versatility and range of built-in features it provides for users. However, you might often feel it lacks troubleshooting or system monitoring tools required ...

With the right tools, you can scan your system and remove spyware, adware, and other malicious programs that may be lurking ...

Unable to delete, move, or perform any action on a file because it is locked by a process? Find out which process is locking a file in Windows 11/10 using various methods discussed in this article.

No Windows experience is complete without occasionally opening the Task Manager to figure out which application is using all of your RAM, or to end a program that has been frozen for ten minutes with ...

I had a process in task manager C Program Files (x86)\Samsung\Easy Settings\MovieColorEnhancer.exe using about 400,000 or 700,000 handles. OS win7 64bit. I end tasked it and renamed it. I don't need ...

Microsoft is looking to port the popular Sysinternals utilities to ARM64 so that they can run on Windows 10 on ARM. Screenshots posted to Twitter already show the Process Explorer and Process Monitor ...

Just because you've closed a window doesn't mean that Windows has killed the process. Sometimes the operating system keeps processes running in the background so that when you run a new instance, it ...