chattius 2,526 Posted September 3, 2013 Share Posted September 3, 2013 Did you know that you can change the program which pops up when pressing ctrl-alt-del? if yes, which program are you using? I prefer the Process Explorer from sysinternals for years now. http://technet.microsoft.com/de-de/sysinternals/bb896653 Link to comment
Schot 407 Posted September 3, 2013 Share Posted September 3, 2013 Very interesting! I just installed Process Explorer(English Link) and it looks like it could provide more useful tools. How do you find Process Explorer improves on Wndows Task Manager? Link to comment
chattius 2,526 Posted September 3, 2013 Author Share Posted September 3, 2013 I really like it. You have to do some registry editing before it pops up at ctrl-alt-del. It saves time when I have to kill a program and want to search for the reason. It gives some more informations than just the taskmanager. And I can do some bug search before the process is killed -something like looking which registry keys are opened, which DLL's are started by the program, who is the owner, ... But even if you want to avoid registry editing, the tool is really nice. Probably best to start it manually first and once knowing and trusting in it, do the registry edit for replacing. I was using the wininternals(now sysinternals) tools already when I had Windows NT. And there is a helpfile in html format to learn what it can. The wininternal people did some good WindowsNT interna books, did some tools to detect root kits, and then were hired by Microsoft. Then the name changed to sysinternals and the tools went to the Microsoft technet page. Link to comment
Schot 407 Posted September 3, 2013 Share Posted September 3, 2013 Cool! Well I'll give it a try for a while and see what I can do with it. Thanx chattius! Link to comment
chattius 2,526 Posted September 3, 2013 Author Share Posted September 3, 2013 The page has some other nice programs too: Autoruns Regmon Portmon ProcessMonitor ... Link to comment
wolfie2kX 528 Posted September 3, 2013 Share Posted September 3, 2013 Actually.. they weren't hired by Microsoft - they were bought out by Microsoft... Slight subtle difference. Link to comment
chattius 2,526 Posted February 5, 2014 Author Share Posted February 5, 2014 It is always wise to run autoruns once a week on the computer of your younger kids... http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902 Stopped 34 programs from being started at boot. Link to comment
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