Process Explorer is an application designed to replace the Windows Task Manager. The developer of the product was Sysinternals, but now the rights have gone to Microsoft Corporation. The application works on the Windows lineup from XP to Win8, 32-x and 64-bit operating systems are supported.
Process Explorer features
Compared to the Task Manager, this browser has several advantages. First, the list of processes is hierarchical. This allows you to see which applications are consuming resources of the operating system. Another handy element is the presence of icons with the manufacturer's logo in front of each process.
Secondly, there is a handy resource consumption graph panel. You can specify a range of CPU or memory usage measurement, view a graph of consumption of a single process.
Thirdly, Process Explorer is able to freeze any process.
The program has 2 ways of working. Descriptor mode allows you to see the open descriptors of a specified process, Library mode shows all the DLLs and files loaded by the process. These features make Process Explorer a tool for dealing with dynamic library versioning and descriptor leaks. The full functionality of Process Explorer is described on the Sysinternals website.
The program is installed by running the file procexp.exe (or procexp64.exe), and you can bind the launch of the explorer to the task manager hotkeys.
