Turn of those memory eating processes!!!!

Published on September 24, 2005 By esg-designs In Personal Computing

Easily identify what are the processes running on your PC. Just use this site to research the *.exe listed in your Task Manager.

This is SOOOO important its not even funny. I was looking for this but gave up after googling it, A9 searches, and yohooin it... yes I said yahooing it. What I like Yahoo.

Anyway, how many times have you wanted to knock out a process because it was taking too much memory or even virtual memory? The sran thing is eating up CPU cyles? Turn it off! (well at least find out if you CAN turn it off by using the link provided).

Comments

thomassen

on Sep 25, 2005

Anther good resource is www.iamnotageek.com

Lantec

on Sep 25, 2005

Here's another good one Link
BlackViper.com used to have a good section on services as well but the site's been "under construction" for a couple months now.

GoodMorphing

on Sep 25, 2005

http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/ProcessExplorer.html I've been using this one.

Island Dog

on Sep 25, 2005

Nice find. Thanks GoodMorphing.

joetheblow

on Sep 25, 2005

Now that is what I'm talkin' about. Thanks Goodmorphing!

Vernalex

on Sep 26, 2005

Nice website you found there Developer Lantec

Lantec

on Sep 26, 2005

Nice website you found there Developer Lantec

I always thought so. Thanks for the useful tools and guides. I've had several occasions to use them. I hope you plan to update for Vista next year.

iTZKooPA

on Sep 26, 2005

Good sites

tri1ogy

on Sep 27, 2005

Easily identify what processes are running on your PC.

...and check to see if there are viruses lurking about.

I was looking at my cousins pc Sunday, and found myself inspecting his processes in Task Manager. If your system is like his, and has a process by the name of scvhost.exe (not to be confused with the legitimate svchost.exe), then you have been infected with the Backdoor.Sdbot.N trojan.

Easy to remove - but some kind of protection (firewall/router/etc) couldve prevented it from happening.

(Wow, talk about timing!

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