You may know that I check the running processes of my computer regularly. This is mainly a security precaution to detect malicious processes that may be running. More often than not I catch unwanted processes that I do not need but run anyway. GoogleCrashHandler.exe is such a process. I recently saw it running on my [...]

Categories: Google, Tutorials Basic, Windows

I just noticed the process conhost.exe for the first time in Windows 7. Not sure if it was never there before or if I did not have the Windows Task Manager open at the time it was running on the operating system. The properties of the conhost.exe process describe it as the Console Windows Host [...]

Categories: Tutorials Basic, Windows

Auto Kill Any Process has been designed to batch kill running processes in Windows. Why would someone want to do that? There are actually a few reasons where this functionality might come in handy. Think about launching programs that benefit from every additional Megabyte of computer memory and cpu power. Some gamers for instance like [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

My system felt a bit sluggish after starting the installation of a new application and a quick check of the task manager revealed a process named mscorsvw.exe that was running on my system using nearly 40% of my CPU. I never heard about that file before and a quick check on the Internet revealed that [...]

Categories: Windows

Some of you might have experienced certain spyware, virus or trojan behavior that they spawn another process as soon as the user kills it. This can be caused by several processes that are running on the system that are infected and that scan the system permanently to make sure that all the relevant malicious processes [...]

Categories: Operating Systems, Security, Software, Windows

I more than once asked myself why I had so many svchost processes running when opening the task manager which displayed no additional information on the process. I needed another software that would help me analyze the svchost processes and determine if they were really needed or even malicious.

Categories: Operating Systems, Windows

I spotted a huge process in my task manager today called MediaAgent.exe which used roughly 30 Megabytes of RAM. A quick check revealed that the process belonged to a OpenCASE Media Agent which I was not aware to have installed after all. My first fears that it was some sort of trojan, virus or spyware that managed to sneak into my system thankfully did not turn out to be true.

Categories: Knowledge, Operating Systems, Windows

First of all, Merry Christmas everyone ;)

Config Inspector is a nice little freeware application for windows operating systems that could be described as an advanced task manager. Besides offering more information about loaded applications and processes it also displays vital information about memory and cpu usage, network utilization and general windows information.

Categories: Tools