MyComputer - Part II: What's Running

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