Unleash the Power of Process Explorer: Diagnose and Fix Slow PC Performance

Process Explorer (A Process Management Tool)

You are using the Windows operating system on PC & sometime you have a lot of question’s in your mind when Windows operating system in your PC has a performance degradation problem & the system is very slow, in this situation you have too many questions arise in your mind that are:

• What processes are running on your PC?
• What’s going on at any time in your windows PC?
• Want to kill a frozen process.
• Figure out how much memory or CPU time processes are used & what application used how much memory or CPU time.  
• Why my PC performance is very slow and where most memory/CPU time utilize?
• And the much more similar type of questions & facing problems.

In that situation what you should do?  

You can know these types of question's answers by using the Process Explorer utility, which is free & it is a similar version of task manager but have advanced feature & more control. 

What can we do with Process Explorer let's first understand What is Process Explorer?

It is a utility that is part of Windows Sysinternal & the basic purpose of this utility is to provide information on currently active processes with details. It shows you information about which handles and DLL processes have opened or loaded. The utility has a unique capability for tracking down DLL-version problems or Handle leaks and providing insight into the way Windows and applications work. 

A handle is a structure that references a system's resources such as block of memory or a file on a disk. Handle leak is a type of resource leak or a situation in which a finite computing resource such as memory is excessively consumed by an application. a

The main screen of process explorer is shown below & it shows, you detailed information about a process including its icon, command line, full image path, memory statistics, user account, security attributes, and more.

When you zoom in on a particular process you can list the DLL it has loaded or the operating system resource handles it has open.

A search capability enables you to track down a process that has a resource opened, such as a file, directory, or registry key or to view the list of processes that have a DLL loaded.

The process explorer has the following features:

• Hierarchical view of processes. 
• Ability to suspend selected process. 
• A complete process tree can be killed. 
• Interactively set the priority of a process. 
• There is an option to display DLLs loaded by process (view->Lower pane view->DLLs) 
• There is an option to display processes' handles which includes named mutants, events, sockets, files, registry keys etc (View => Lower Pane View => Handles) and many more. 

You can download this utility from Windows Sysinternals. and directly run it from Sysinternals Live. No need to install the application it is simply run the executable file. The name of it executable file is: procexp.exe

Process Explorer empowers you to become a detective of your PC's performance. By understanding processes and their resource consumption, you can diagnose and fix slowdowns, optimize performance, and gain a deeper understanding of your system's inner workings. Remember, knowledge is power, and Process Explorer puts that power in your hands!

Enjoy using the process explorer utility for understanding the performance of the PC.

I you want to go into more details Watch this video ....

Source:https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/process-explorer