In the previous posting, I covered the installation of Process Explorer and setting things up so that it runs automatically at startup time with its icon permanently displayed in the system tray ...

There are certain situations when you would want to find the process start and end time in Windows 11/10. For example, as you try to troubleshoot an application, or if there are too many processes ...

Win8.1 rant, but I first hit this several years ago on either WinXP or Win95. I decided to organize my music directory and was plagued by "Can't rename/move this directory as it's in use by another ...

During the last few weeks, my computer will occasionally find itself with one core pegged. Using Process Explorer, I've determined that the hung thread is always: It doesn't happen all the time, and I ...

I've always used Windows Task Manager to troubleshoot my computer when it's slow. I’ll open it and stare at the CPU or memory bars, hoping to find the problem. However, at times, everything looked ...

When you can't open, edit, or delete a file in Windows File Explorer, it's either still open in a program running in the background or something didn't close properly. Luckily, you can force delete, ...