Saturday, March 01, 2008
Sysinternals
Don't take this the wrong way .... I'm not fan of Windows. I think I've just matured and come to grips with the fact it's here and I need to be able to work with it. Kind of like Republicans.
That said I just want to make a plug for Sysinternals.
Sysinternals was a website set up by Mark Russinovich in 1996 to host his Windows tools. The tools are so good the site has been acquired by the evil empire itself. No telling what the future will bring ... be that as it may I've used some of the tools on this site to solve more than one problem on the home Windows box.
My favorite tool so far is:
Process Explorer - shows information about what processes are running and how they were started as well as all sorts of other nifty information like DLLs, threads, performance stats. Using process explorer I am able to track down what stats a process (service, program) and prevent it from starting. Great for cleaning up all those phantom processes left over by packages you no longer use.
#posted by Rob Roschewsk @ 1:37 PM
Comments:
Process Explorer is like the Swiss Army Knife for Windows. I don't know anyone you can be a regular user of the O/S without it... great little invention.
