Simple question?

[dc2243 0]

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.

[theefool 0]

Simple answer...maybe..

 

http://www.liutilities.com/products/wintaskspro/processlibrary/

[mctonale 0]

And if you cant find it there?

 

Google it. (include the extension)

[Wilhelmus 1]

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.

 

[theefool 0]

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.

[Wilhelmus 1]

Originally posted by theefool:

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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.

Did you knew that you can create self-extracting/installing package with Windows XP? "iexpress.exe"

 

[theefool 0]

Nope, but since I already use winzip and winrar, I didn't even bother looking into that. I did know that xp has unzipping tech built in.

 

Sometimes, we get set in our old ways of doing things. I still use pkzip, pkunzip, and arj.