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Ever wondered which program has a particular file or directory open? Now you can find out. Process Explorer shows you information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded.

The Process Explorer display consists of two sub-windows. The top window always shows a list of the presently active processes, including the names of their owning accounts, whereas the information displayed in the bottom window depends on the mode that Process Explorer is in: if it is in handle mode you’ll see the handles that the process selected in the top window has opened; if Process Explorer is in DLL mode you’ll see the DLLs and memory-mapped files that the process has loaded. Process Explorer also has a powerful search capability that will quickly show you which processes have particular handles opened or DLLs loaded.

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PsService is a service viewer and manager for Windows. Like the SC utility that’s included in the Windows NT and Windows 2000 Resource Kits, PsService displays the status, configuration, and dependencies of a service, and allows you to start, stop, pause, resume and restart them. Unlike the SC utility, PsService enables you to logon to a remote system using a dissimilar account, for cases when the account from which you run it doesn’t have required permissions on the remote system. PsService includes a unique service-search capability, which identifies active instances of a service on your network. You would use the search feature if you wanted to locate systems running DHCP servers, for instance.

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Windows NT/2000 does not come with a command-line ‘kill’ utility. You can get one in the Windows NT or Win2K Resource Kit, but the kit’s utility can only terminate processes on the local computer. PsKill is a kill utility that not only does what the Resource Kit’s version does, but can also kill processes on remote systems. You don’t even have to install a client on the target computer to use PsKill to terminate a remote process. I think this is Fantastic software that we can use to our windows operating system. See below information for advantages information.

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PsSuspend lets you suspend processes on the local or a remote system, which is pleasing in cases where a process is consuming a resource (e.g. network, CPU or disk) that you want to allow unusual processes to use. Rather than kill the process that’s consuming the resource, suspending permits you to let it continue operation at some later point in time.

setting up PsSuspend

Easy Set up, you just Copy PsSuspend into your executable path and type “pssuspend” with command-line options defined below.

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  1. This screen below shows us when we use PsList. See Carefully to get more information for this software. Check this out friends.

pslist exp would show statistics for all the processes that start with “exp”, which would include Explorer.
-d Show thread detail.
-m Show memory detail.
-x Show processes, memory information and threads.
-t Show process tree.
-s [n] Run in task-manager mode, for optional seconds specified. Press Escape to abort.
-r n Task-manager mode refresh rate in seconds (default is 1).
\\computer Instead of showing process information for the local system, PsList will show information for the NT/Win2K system specified. Include the -u switch with a username and password to login to the remote system if your security credentials do not permit you to obtain performance counter information from the remote system.
-u username If you want to kill a process on a remote system and the account you are executing in does not have administrative privileges on the remote system then you must login as an administrator using this command-line option. If you do not include the password with the -p option then PsList will prompt you for the password without echoing your input to the display.
-p password This option lets you specify the login password on the command line so that you can use PsList from batch files. If you specify an account name and omit the -p option PsList prompts you interactively for a password.
name Show information about processes that begin with the name specified.
-e Exact match the process name.
pid Instead of listing all the running processes in the system, this parameter narrows PsList’s scan to tthe process that has the specified PID. Thus:
pslist 53
would dump statistics for the process with the PID 53.

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