Simple question?
I'm not new to computers, but im new to actually knowing anything about them, so sorry if this is a stupid question. When i bring up my task manager and i look at the processes, there are 29 processes supposedly being run by me, the user, along with many more system processes.
I'm not new to computers, but im new to actually knowing anything about them, so sorry if this is a stupid question. When i bring up my task manager and i look at the processes, there are 29 processes supposedly being run by me, the user, along with many more system processes. I am wondering how i can find out what each of the processes are, what they do, the name of the program, if i need them, etc. They are all .exe, which i believe means executable file? im not really sure so that is another question of mine. I want to know because on my last computer a bunch of spyware programs were being run, and they were not found by spyware or ad-aware, but icould not end the process because a new one would pop up, and my computer was dreadfully slow. I jsut want to know for the future and what not. I hope someone can help me, and i appreciate your time if you can help. Thanks.
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Alec§taar would most likely tell you about tasklist command...
Start->Run: "cmd"
Then execute "tasklist /svc", now you'll see what services have running process loaded.
And if you want to see what modules(dlls) the process is using,
execute: "tasklist /m | more" (the "| (pipe) more" allow you to pause between screens, if you get lots of text).
Execute "tasklist /?" to see syntax for this command.
As mctonale mentioend, Google is your friend.
Start->Run: "cmd"
Then execute "tasklist /svc", now you'll see what services have running process loaded.
And if you want to see what modules(dlls) the process is using,
execute: "tasklist /m | more" (the "| (pipe) more" allow you to pause between screens, if you get lots of text).
Execute "tasklist /?" to see syntax for this command.
As mctonale mentioend, Google is your friend.
Though, google will probably point you to liuitilities.
Thanks for the tasklist util. Never knew that existed. I always thought I knew about the majority of the command line utils that come with the os.
In fact, I've been learning the new command shell called: MCS or Microsoft command shell.
Thanks for the tasklist util. Never knew that existed. I always thought I knew about the majority of the command line utils that come with the os.
In fact, I've been learning the new command shell called: MCS or Microsoft command shell.
