You can use Sysinternals Process Explorer to check locked files and folders, identify suspect software, uncover process affiliations and more. In the screenshot below, you can see most of what's ...

Check out this super-powerful, free alternative to Task Manager, from Microsoft. Windows isn’t just for hard-core geeks or just for novices. Being the most popular operating system on the planet, ...

A glib definition of Process Explorer is that it’s Task Manager on steroids. But that doesn’t do it justice. I prefer to compare it to the dashboard of a car. A Windows computer without Process ...

Process Explorer has always been one of the best PC monitoring and troubleshooting tools around. There's always room for improvement, though, and the latest version sees a very useful addition in the ...

The executable module in Windows that contains the Start menu, Taskbar, desktop and file manager. EXPLORER.EXE is a Windows process that is run automatically at startup and remains an active process.