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Comment from Dave on 2008-10-28

2008-10-28T18:05:46Z

Pocessor Explorer appears to be a very interesting program/application. I am certainly going to try it. Since subscribing to your subject material, I have picked a good few Tricks and Tips. Keep-up the good work, Leo, and thanks.

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Comment from Jon on 2008-09-03

2008-09-03T19:35:06Z

I guess this makes me a geek as well, (actually, i will proudly call myself a geek if asked) because i too like to see exactly what my computer's doing (especially if whatever its doing is causing errors or *gasp* the blue screen of death comes up) Kudos to you for pointing out Process Explorer to the average user, who may not realize the value of having such a tool immediately.

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Comment from Cees Zwijnenburg on 2008-08-28

2008-08-29T00:23:26Z

Hi Leo,

A short reaction and question from Netherlands, where you must have many relatives. I agree with your recommendations of Process explorer. A lot of the activities of the machine can be clarified by it. I say a lot and not all because it does not help me to understand why sometimes when my disk activity led is constantly red and my machine does not react on keystrokes, mouse movements etc. Then it seems it has started a business for itself and is not bothered by what I want. If the Led activity is caused by disk usage it isn't explained by the processes that are running at that time and don't seem to be Heavy users. Do you know of a monitor program that reports in real time which processes, files are causing these heavy disk activities?

K.reg Cees

Check out FileMon by the same folks who did Process Monitor.

-Leo

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Comment from norm on 2008-08-28

2008-08-28T21:36:30Z

Thanx for the good advice; I've gone and downloaded Process Explorer and noticed that you have yours installed as auto start and would like to do the same.If you think this is advisable for an ameteur to attempt such a task,feel free to say; also,do you recommend deleting Task Manager or would I still use it for anything?Thanx again for the tip!

You can set up process explorer to run automatically simply by adding a shortcut to the Programs or All Programs, Startup menu. Shortcuts placed there are automatically started when you login. That's all I did.

Task manager cannot and should not be deleted. If nothing else Windows will get upset and try to restore it, annoy you about it, and so on.

-Leo

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