Part II in the MyComputer series of posts.

refer to Part I: The audit

In Part I talked quickly about auditing your system to know what you have. This time I wanted to mention some tools that I use to identify what is running on my system.

Tool List:

  • Usage Monitor: This tool not only will get you a list of running processes but also let you monitor and set alarms on any process
  • Services.vbs: Quick little Visual Basic Script (VBS) that will get you a report of all running process and the executable that started it.
  • Startup List: A list of what starts when you system starts – everyone should now this.
  • Process Explorer: Tells you just about everything you need to know about processes, handles, and threads.

Stay on the look out for Part III – While its running

Check out these posts too:

  1. MyComputer – Part III: While it's running
  2. MyComputer – Part I: The audit
  3. Common reason for a slow running computer
  4. Know your process
  5. Process Scanner
  6. One of those little apps everyone should run
  7. New versions of Dev tools from Microsoft