Have you ever asked yourself why the computer’s hard drive is trashing like mad or why everything seemed to come down to a halt without you doing anything on the computer right now? What’s My Computer Doing is a free software program for the Windows operating system that tries to shed light to those questions.
It displays an activity list in its interface upon startup that lists the programs and their activity. The activity is usually hard disk or processor activity or both. System processes are by default hidden in the list of running programs. They can be displayed by clicking on the Also show system processes link at the top.
Selecting one of the programs in the list displays additional information about it in the lower half of the program window.
The information displayed include the name and installation directory on the hard drive, the data and tie the program was started, installed and modified, product details that include the producer’s name and copyright, security information, known problems and external links both to the producer’s website (if available) and a Google search.
The right side of the program window contains action buttons that can display the program properties, open the installation folder, terminate, close or uninstaller the program as well as send it to Kaspersky or VirusTotal to check it for malicious contents.
What’s my computer doing can be a helpful tool for analysing programs that seem to cause lots of disk or cpu activity on a computer system. Advanced users can do the same with the standard Windows Task Manager or process explorers.
What is my computer doing can be downloaded right here. (via Megaleecher)
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sysinternals/microsoft process explorer is better
I would not install this program.
Not only is Process Explorer better as mentioned above but also this program tries to get into your Autostart folder and for some reason it was not straight forward to uninstall on my system…