Do Not Use Task Manager for Memory Info

Re:Do Not Use Task Manager for Memory Info by fencepost on Sunday January 06, 2019 @03:15PM (#18840354)

For versions of Windows before 10, I'd agree with this 100%. Windows 10 (or maybe 8-8.1?) pulled in a lot of functionality from Process Explorer and is much improved.

For developers Process Explorer (and ProcMon and a few other utils) is likely an improvement, but frankly if you're doing Windows development you should already have learned about them and probably some of Nir Sofer's tools as well (nirsoft.net). For 90% of people (even developers) you probably don't need what Process Explorer provides.

Side note, in Process Explorer if you turn on the lower pane (View menu or Ctrl-L) you can view all handles that a process has open, including file handles. That can be useful for identifying unrecognized processes.

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Re:Do Not Use Task Manager for Memory Info by rococode on Sunday January 06, 2019 @04:34PM (#18840856)

Here's the link to Process Explorer: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/proc...

It also has an option to replace Task Manager so that it comes up when you do Ctrl+Shift+Esc, etc.

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Re:Do Not Use Task Manager for Memory Info by bepvte on Sunday January 06, 2019 @07:39PM (#18841806)

Process Hacker is also very good

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