This happens to almost every user at some point in their history of owning a computer: you run a couple of extra applications, and your CPU usage goes through the roof and refuses to come down. Your machine slows down and becomes obstinately unresponsive. You battle increasing frustration and a growing desire to kick, smash or otherwise damage your machine as you realise that some unidentifiable rogue process is hogging your computer’s memory. You browse through all the running processes in your Task Manager, looking for a process to kill that may restore normalcy, and see nothing unusual - at least, nothing that you can identify as a harmful process.
But what do all those random alphabets mean anyway? Exactly what is svchost.exe, and what is it doing there on your PC? Will killing it harm your computer? For that matter, what is jusched.exe, or spoolsv.exe, or ctfmon.exe? How do you know those aren’t Trojans, or some other malicious program, chewing up gobs of memory and harming your computer or your data in the bargain?
Of course, you could search the Web for each of those 50-odd process names and figure out what they’re supposed to do, and then sift the malicious ones out of the essential processes. But if you’re looking for a more practical and less painful solution, you need to download and install Uniblue’s ProcessQuickLink 2.
This simple, ultra-lightweight tool, when running, embeds itself into your Task Manager, providing a small, convenient button next to each process running on your computer. When clicked, this button takes you to that particular process’ definition, as given at ProcessLibrary.com. The Process Library is a complete database of all known processes. Not only does it have information on what each process is and what it does, it also tells you exactly how important it is for the stable running of your PC, and how advisable it would be to end it. All the critical information about each process is available to you in two or three extremely concise sentences. The Library also has a security risk rating system that slots all processes into four categories, based on their threat posed by each.
So you can identify a harmful process and decide what to do about it within seconds, without having to agonise over the consequences of ending a process you can’t identify, or spending precious hours researching each process. The Library is constantly updated with new information about processes, so you always have the latest information at your fingertips.
Disclaimer: Though we ensure that we cover only trusted freeware here, Microsoft or MSN will not be held responsible for any harm apparently caused by downloading or running the program.
