You sometimes may need to make sure that a process is running all the time on the Windows operating system. Or, you want the exact opposite, make sure that a process is not running. Process monitoring software like Microsoft’s Process Monitor can aid the admin and users in that task. Process Notifier is a lightweight [...]

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The developers of the Windows system monitor What’s Running have recently released beta 3 of their upcoming third version of the software program. What’s Running is a system monitor that is to an extend comparable with popular tools like Process Explorer. The system monitor on the other hand does not only reveal information about running [...]

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The Windows operating system does not come with an option to monitor applications effectively. The only option available are the various event logs that are automatically generated by the operating system. The event log in combination with the Windows Task Scheduler can theoretically be used to restart crashed applications. But the configuration is not that [...]

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There are not a lot of tools available for the Windows operating system that measure and optimize the Windows boot process. The mysterious Microsoft Bootvis, which was later retracted by Microsoft, or Boot Timer, a program that can only measure the boot speed, are just two programs to measure the boot speed. Many tips exist [...]

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If you ever wanted to download all the troubleshooting applications from sysinternals at once you can do so by downloading the Sysinternals suite right from Microsoft. The suite contains all troubleshooting applications that made sysinternal famous, 67 utilities in total which make it easy to troubleshoot Windows problems. This suite is not for you if you already have most of the utilities installed.

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